** As part of my goal to re-educate and expose myself to the world, I am watching movies and reading books like there is no tomorrow. I am happy I am getting reacquainted again with my old self – but know that I like pretty feel-good movies after a hard day’s work. So you might not see anything from me that deep. I do write about movies I enjoyed and would love to watch again though 

Three relationships. Three disasters. One last chance.

Summary:

On the day she has her first sex ed class, 10-year-old Maya grills her divorcing dad Will Hayes about her conception. That night, he fills her in, changing the names of the women who were in his life then to keep her guessing which is her mom: Emily, his college girlfriend when he came to New York from Wisconsin for Clinton’s ’92 campaign; April, edgy, a little cynical, who misses her father; and, Summer, a writer attracted to older, established men. In demanding the story, Maya’s motivation is clear: to get her dad to fall in love again with her mom. Will this parent trap work? In the telling, might Will discover his true Penelope? Definitely. Maybe.

• While the movie might seem the usual romantic You’ve Got Mail movie, think again. There are unexpected and bittersweet turns in this movie that closely resembles things that really happen in real life.
• You realize shit really happens.
• And that first loves doesn’t necessarily end in happy endings.
• And that true love does occur once in a lifetime. And it goes by unnoticed most of the time, until it’s too late
• I love how they story transformed and changed a promising idealistic man into someone who closely resembles fathers who are stuck in the now.

And I leave you with my most favorite lines in the movie:

Will Hayes: Just shut up! Here – I wanna marry you because you’re the first person I wanna look at when I wake up in the morning, and the only one I wanna kiss goodnight. Because the first time that I saw these hands, I couldn’t imagine not being able to hold them. But mainly, when you love someone as much as I love you, getting married is the only thing left to do. So, will you, um, marry me?

April: Definitely. Maybe.

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