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Release Date: Sep 14, 2007
Running Time: 105 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
starring: Chris Messina, Jennifer Westfeldt, Frances Conroy, Fred Willard, Robert Klein, Judith Light, Jason Alexander, Darrell Hammond, Chris Parnell, Donna Murphy
director: Robert Cary
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Ira Black, 33, is brilliant, neurotic, Jewish and has so many issues he can’t fit them into 12 years of analysis. He can’t finish his dissertation, he can’t commit to his longtime girlfriend, and he’s incapable of making a decision, even if it’s just what to order at the diner. Abby Willoughby, 30, is a free spirit who’s better at solving her friends’ problems at the gym than selling memberships. When the two meet, the impossible happens: they fall in love, meet each other’s parents and decide to get married, all in a few breathless hours. And life is good, until Ira finds out that Abby is a divorcee--two times over. Despite even more therapy, Ira can’t help but feel that their marriage was built on a lie. They divorce quietly, while cracks grow wider in their parents’ marriages. Ira’s gorgeous analyst mother Arlene starts a secret liaison with Abby’s charming voiceover artist father Michael, while Abby’s mother Lynne wonders why she’s no longer attractive to her husband and Ira’s father Sy pretends not to notice. Ira soon realizes he’s miserable without Abby. He asks her forgiveness and they marry again, this time making more realistic vows. But Ira’s jealousy issues and Abby’s free-floating tendencies lead him to reconnect with his ex-girlfriend. When Abby finds out about their parents’ infidelities, the three couples converge for a group therapy with eight therapists. Ira and Abby ultimately realize that they were meant to be together. But divorced. Because marriage just isn’t for them.
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If Dharma and Greg went to therapy--a lot--you might end up with something like Robert Cary's appealing but uneven romantic comedy Ira and Abby. Story Ira Black (Chris Messina) is a prototypical movie New Yorker--he wears a lot of black, he's in therapy (well, technically analysis), and he's in the habit of over-thinking everything he does, from his Ph.D. dissertation to what to order for lunch. Then he meets free-spirited, empathetic Abby Willoughby (Jennifer Westfeldt), and everything changes.
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