How Do You Know
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
29 December 1984, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
2 January 1986, Houston, Texas, USA
9 November 1977, San Diego, California, USA
26 April 1947, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
June 22, 2013
I'm not sure the movie will end up earning back its stars' huge salaries, but you definitely can't argue they didn't earn them.
September 22, 2012
"How Do You Know" is a complete misfire from famed writer/director James L. Brooks.
December 28, 2010
Everything looks primed for civilized amusement, but somewhere along the way the laughs dropped off, together with the question mark in the title.
July 14, 2011
It's all a bit of a slog and, in the end, you don't know much more than you did at the start.
December 17, 2010
How do you know if a romantic comedy isn't working? Generally if it's neither especially romantic, nor particularly comic. And in this picture, no matter how many times he keeps coming up to bat, Brooks keeps striking out.
January 26, 2011
Contrived, mawkish and mirthless, this feels like it was made by people who haven't had any meaningful human contact for years.
December 17, 2010
How Do You Know isn't Brooks' best. Witherspoon is too uneasy in her role. But thanks to Rudd, plus Kathryn Hahn as... George's loyal secretary and Nicholson as his father, it delivers a number of delights.
December 17, 2010
Brooks has given us the rare contemporary rom-com that's by turns (if intermittently) thoughtful and funny, and that doesn't feel focus-grouped, cynical, misogynist, or mean. It seems ungenerous not to cut such a generous movie a break.
January 23, 2013
It's not enough to merely swoon over Witherspoon. The movie's entirely too long and leaden to get by on that alone.
May 03, 2011
What makes any of these kinds of movies run involves the appeal of the main actors, and all three, stalwart in their screen likabilities, smooth the proceedings.
August 12, 2011
Some of the bits are funny, every now and then they're sweet, the performances are OK and really, with this much talent involved, it's hard not to be disappointed in that.
January 30, 2012
What happened to James L. Brooks?
