Definitely, Maybe (2008)

Rolling Stone
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Studio: Universal Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Feb 14, 2008
Running Time: 111 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Will Hayes is a 30-something Manhattan dad in the midst of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the presidential campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as an idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. Will hopelessly attempts a gentler version of his story for his daughter and changes the names so Maya has to guess which woman her father finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, the apolitical April? Or, is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist Summer? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back... and maybe even possible to find a happy ending.
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Will Hayes
Maya Hayes
Russell T. McCormack
April
Summer Hartley
Hampton Roth
Kevin
Gareth
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - February 14, 2008
I concede that there may be people who will cotton to this knockoff of TV's How I Met Your Mother. Me, I don't want to meet those people. Ryan Reynolds, a star still waiting to happen, plays a disillusioned ad guy (is there another kind?) with a precocious daughter (is there another kind?). Since the kid is played by Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin with no loss in solar energy, Daddy, on the eve of his divorce, is asked how he met Mommy. To stretch the movie that would have been over in… Continued
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If guys' harshest punishment this Valentine's Day is being dragged to see Definitely, Maybe, they're getting off pretty easy, thanks in large part to Ryan Reynolds.

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If Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) didn't have such a smart, intuitive and inquisitive young daughter (Abigail Breslin), there might've been no Definitely, Maybe. It is she who demands the unabridged story of who her mother is and how she met Will, a story that dates all the way back to 1992 and involves a trio of women. It begins… Continued