Must Love Dogs (2005)

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Must Love Dogs
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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Jul 29, 2005
Running Time: 98 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Dating has never been easy. The time-honored search for a soul mate has always been one part humiliation, two parts aggravation, and a little blind luck thrown in for the fortunate. Today's version of the game can be a blur of websites, speed lunches and hordes of friends and relatives who know just the "right" person for you. Thirty-something preschool teacher Sarah Nolan has been divorced for eight months, which is much too long for her family to bear. With the best intentions and only her happiness in mind, they stage an intervention in an all-out effort to get her out of pajamas and back into the dating scene, one way or another. Leading the charge are Sarah's sisters, Carol and Christine, eager to line up potential suitors, and their widowed father Bill, who sets a fine example with his own recent and very successful foray into the internet dating realm. Bill has lately been seeing the free-spirited dolly, whom he met online, along with a number of other ladies whose names his daughters can't quite keep track of. Eager to launch their sister's own cyber-dating debut, Carol and Christine pretend to be Sarah and post her profile on perfectmatch.com, with the enticing message, "Voluptuous, sensuous, alluring and fun. DWF seeks special man to share starlit nights. Must love dogs." And wait for the responses to pour in. Sarah soon endures a series of hilariously disastrous mismatches and first dates as the website offers up a stream of eager wannabes and one possible maybe--awkward but intriguing boat builder Jake Anderson, an idealist who measures romance by a Dr. Shivago standard. A little on the intense side, Jake might be looking for more than Sarah wants right now. Meanwhile, at work, there's a new distraction--Bob Connor, the newly separated dad of one of her young students. Charming and relaxed, Bob seems made to order, the perfect guy--but is he just too good to be true?
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Sarah (Diane Lane) is a just-divorced pre-school teacher whom seemingly everyone in the world wants to set up on a date, much to her chagrin. She insists on staying out of the horrid dating scene, until her meddlesome sister (Elizabeth Perkins) takes it upon herself to put a listing on a matchmaking Web site, under the canine-friendly heading sharing the movie's title. Cusack's Jake, a morose boat builder who's also goaded by a well-meaning but shrewish friend, replies. After an initial… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - July 22, 2005
It's a frisky romantic comedy with a great title and wonderfully appealing performances from Diane Lane and John Cusack as computer-dating matchups. So it seems churlish to bark that writer-director and Emmy winner Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties, Spin City) has drizzled sitcom contrivances all over it. But he has. Luckily, he has also provided fun dialogue that goes down as easy as John Bailey's confectionary camerawork. Lane is a dream, funny and touching as Sarah, a preschool teacher still… Continued
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