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MUST LOVE DOGS
WARNER BROS. PICTURES Presents
An UBU/Team Todd Production
DIRECTOR: Gary David Goldberg
WRITERS: Gary David Goldberg (based upon a novel by Claire Cook)
PRODUCERS: Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd, and Gary David Goldberg
Starring: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Dermot Mulroney, Elizabeth Perkins with Stockard Channing and Christopher Plummer
Opening date: Friday, July 29, 2005
Rating: MPAA – PG-13 for sexual content
Running time: 98 minutes
From the press kit: 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 (Diane Lane) has been divorced for eight months, which is much too long for her family to bear. With the best of 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 (Elizabeth Perkins) and CHRISTINE (Ali Hillis), eager to line up potential suitors, and their widowed father BILL (Christopher Plummer), 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 (Stockard Channing), 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 son 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 JACK ANDERSON (John Cusack), an idealist who measures romance by a Dr. Zhivago 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 (Dermot Mulroney), a 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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