A Lot Like Love

Some people spend a lifetime looking for love and never find it.

Twenty-something graduate Oliver (Kutcher) stumbles upon his dream woman and lets her go in order to pursue his dreams of a dazzling future.

Fresh out of college, Oliver is waiting to board a flight bound for New York when he happens to see fellow passenger Emily (Peet).

It's lust at first sight, which is duly consummated at 30,000 feet when Emily barges in on Oliver in one of the airplane toilets.

Once they touch down, so to speak, the two strangers spend several hours together in the Big Apple, getting to know one another.

It quickly becomes clear their mid-air collision was a meeting of bodies rather than minds. Emily is a free spirit desperate to suck all of the spontaneity and excitement out of life. Oliver has mapped out the next six years, setting himself goals to achieve business success and find true love.

Traipsing down the same meandering road as When Harry Met Sally, A Lot Like Love is rather light on big laughs, wringing out the odd chuckle from Oliver's disastrous attempts to woo Emily - like his excruciating rendition of I'll Be There For You.

Kutcher and Peet are both hugely likeable and she invests her lovesick singleton with a vulnerability which is quite touching.

Unfortunately, screenwriter Colin Patrick Lynch is determined to string out their suffering - and ours - for as long as possible, building to a finale which falls emotionally flat.