Characters: Summer (Zooey "Yes Man" Deschanel), Tom (Joseph "Third Rock From the Sun" Gordan-Leavit), etc.
An idealistic lovelorn man temporarily attains his seemingly unattainable dream girl at the greeting card company where he works, but eventually Cupid's arrow is for unrequited love for the one he comes to believe is his "soulmate". Tom (Joseph Gordan-Leavit) is an architectural school graduate who settles for a job as a greeting card writer. He isn't particularly happy there, until the lovely and effervescent Summer (Zo(o)ey Deschanel) comes into his life. She tells him up front that she a: isn't looking for a boyfriend and b: she doesn't believe in love, but he pursues her nevertheless. They become good friends and basically have, as young people say these days a "friends with benefits" relationship. Around the time their relationship might progress to the next level she inexplicably moves away and he is so devastated and hurt that his job performance suffers. As a rule I hate so-called "romantic comedies", but I consider this an anti-romantic comedy mostly from the male point of view. In a non-linear fashion, the movie shows random moments of the ups and downs of their relationship, like the shuffling of a deck of cards. He comes to think she's his soulmate, but like the season itself, summer is bound to end and he must move on to another season and be open to the possibility of finding someone else. Well worth seeing, especially with someone of the opposite sex.
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