I don't understand why this film received so many favorable reviews. It had an original storyline but there was no fascinating development to it. It was entertaining to some degree but a lot of the subplots were underdeveloped. The affair between Dani (the main character's sister) and the Irish guy was interesting enough because of the gap of physical attractiveness between Dani and her husband. It was resolved in a really hasty way though. The wife did not say or do enough to convince me that the husband really wanted to come back to her. The subplots on the whole felt like something a person would watch on TV.I also don't think Lake Bell is that good looking. Her high opinion of her looks showed a bit in how she was trying to make herself look so much prettier than the character Nancy. The character Jamie (Alexandra Holden) was really attractive in my opinion. I did not find it very realistic that a girl like her would play that part. Her character reminded me of an old woman.The ending also seemed rushed as though it needed more time to unfold. It would've been better if Bell allowed more tension and build-up before the end.

I loved this movie. It felt like Cary Grant and Doris Day in the new millennium. Ms. Bell directs and leads, creating a movie of wonderful, kind energy we may all find too little of in today's world. Lessons taught sweetly with just enough pain. People being people, weird and imperfect but ultimately adorable.Watch it with friends or family, lovers or children, and you'll have a great time.So that's it. Nothingmore to say. IMDb's requirement of 10 lines is silly. It forces bad writing and trite thought.Ya know?

I can't take it anymore. Every 'witty' movie, every 'sharp' TV show is an endless cacophony of 450 words per minute stammering chatter about absolutely not a god damn thing at all except complaining. Couple that with a movie ABOUT voice overs that's nearly mumbled and whispered into a muddy mush, lighting that's nearly dark, and direction that leans heavily on the show 'Parenthood' and you've got this mess. This movie is about nothing and most of it takes place over the phone between people who either hate each other or are doing the fake stream of consciousness thing a la 'Gilmore Girls'. I just can't take it anymore. In a world where garbage is wit and quality is something pulled off the shelf as a cliché's cliché only one woman cam save civilization from OCD. And fails.

Lake Bell is appealing in the lead role as Carol, an aspiring voice-over artist, and as writer/director she's come up with a unique variation on a familiar indie formula: 30-something slacker gets kicked out of the nest. There's a lot going on—Michaela Watkins and Rob Corddry as Carol's sister and brother-in-law get a whole little romcom to themselves—but Carol's various struggles, professional, romantic and familial, mesh together very well. The cast is impressive: nice to imagine that somebody would cast Eva Longoria as a Cockney gangster's moll (though not in this movie, I'm glad to say), and Geena Davis turns up briefly as a studio exec who delivers a crucial message, maybe THE crucial message. Fuzzy, flabby Fred Melamed ("A Serious Man") is definitely the go-to guy when you need an overbearing a••hole, though Ken Marino seemed a little too cartoony as Carol's voice-over rival—more like an escapee from a Christopher Guest movie. Wouldn't have minded seeing more more about the worrrrld of Hollywood voice artists and dialect coaches; it's refreshing to watch a film where the characters do something real and don't just have vague glamour jobs as lawyers or architects (mainstream) or toil away as peons on a cube farm (indie). Available on streaming Netflix.