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It is so unlike me to rent a movie like this, a light Jennifer Anniston touchy feely thingy. This is a PG-13 movie, directed by Rob Reiner, released in 2005 and lasts 1 hour and 37 minutes.

The main characters in the movie are.....

• Jennifer Anniston as Sarah Huttinger, engaged New York obit writer with cold feet.
• Kevin Costner as Beau Burroughs the internet billionaire. The late middle aged man who knows how to get the women.
• Shirley MacLaine as Katherine, Sarah's as the grandmother and first woman of the family to partake so to speak. The best part in the movie, who wouldn't want to play a bitchy old Mrs. Robinson.
• Mark Ruffalo as Jeff Daly, Sarah's on, off, on again fiance.

The plot, I might as well tell you because I will not be recommending the movie, Sarah comes home for her younger sister's wedding with her fiance. Sarah does not tell the family she is engaged. During the rehearsal dinner, her fiance suggests that Sarah was born a little bit short of the requisite none months. Then Sarah catches wind that her deceased mother ran off just before getting married, to Mexico, to be with Beau. Sarah puts together that she might not be her father's daughter. Sarah then visits here mother's best friend, played well by Kathy Bates, and learns that Beau's best friend was the man who wrote the Graduate. Sarah leaves her fiance at the airport to search for Beau, she finds him in northern California, a fantastically rich debonair man. After learning that her mother and grandmother were the inspirations for Graduate, it is not possible that Beau could be the father because of a high school soccer accident. So what does Sarah do, she gets turned on a bones Beau so to speak, after which is scared by the possibility of Beau not having had an injury and worse, a discovery by her fiance. Sarah returns to her grandmother's house for couple of busy scenes where everybody get happy, and then heads off to New York for a reconciliation with her fiance.

Not much of a movie, score 18 of 50.

• Character development 5of 10. A woman evolves from self doubt to confidently stepping forward.
• Writing 3 of 10. Predictable.
• Photography 3 of 10. Plain, plain, plain.
• Acting 3 of 10. Plain, plain, plain.
• Concept 4 of 10. A sequel to the Graduate is a fun thought, that ended right there.