Dedication (2007)
There is a really good film in the characters here, unfortunately that is not the film that got made. We start with two misfit, cynical authors who write a children's book about a beaver. The older one, who does the illustrations, dies in the first third or so of the film and the younger one is left to complete a contractual obligation to provide another book before Christmas. Instead of finding out how these two ended up writing kids books and about the hard lives they have lived to have such a dark out look on life we end up with the standard romantic comedy plot.
If you are going to watch this film then I would suggest giving up about a third to half way into the film because the start is actually pretty decent until the writer got bored and just cut and pasted in the second half from whatever stock script the studio had lying around. Our “hero” gets paired up with a new female illustrator, they do not get along, they go to the planetarium and look at some stars (which is apparently all you need to do to get two people to fall in love with each other), they get together, misunderstanding, they get back together, the end. Sorry if I just spoiled every romantic comedy ever for you there.
Overall this ends up being a really weak film which is a shame after it's early promise as it descends into lazy film making 2/5
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