What she doesn’t get credit for is how they’re rom-coms for grown-ups too, with characters who have actually made it past 40 years of age without succumbing to a strange Hollywood-esque belated Logan’s Run effect. Problems may not always be the ones us paupers face, but at least it’s human beings of some seniority battling them. That’s no bad thing, either. In under 100 minutes, Meyers-Shyer fashions an amiable, enjoyable film, that entertains in spite of its set-up not making too much sense. The heart of the movie is Reese Witherspoon, edging back towards a genre she’s had a lot of success in, if not ever jumping fully into romcom territory. She plays Alice Kenney, returning to her home town after her marriage to Michael Sheen’s Austen hit the rocks. She has two kids, a supportive mother, and through a narrative machination that seamlessly fits this kind of movie, she then finds herself lending her outhouse to three young men, who in turn are looking to make their own film. Oh, and she’s trying to get an interior design business of the ground. That particular subplot is one of a few spikes to a generally smooth and easy movie, a film nlightened by Witherspoon’s warm performance in the lead role. Outright belly laughs? Well, you ain’t getting too many of them, but what you do get is a clutch of characters it’s good fun to spend time with. There are some bumps that are harder to gloss over. The ending is remarkably clean and simple, but not really fitting what’s gone before to that point. The air of the familiar that permeates the movie does come with a downside too of course, and more screen time forLakeBell’s Zoey would have been good.