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This is a terribly depressing movie Not because of its earthiness and refusal to sugar coat But because the lead Male character is written so poorly that it's actually hard to stomach the scenes in which he is central A tired, old, 'I'm afraid of commitment but need to grow up. I want to learn how to love,' narrative that made me want to sit my daughter in front of the screen and say 'NEVER allow a grown man spouting this ugly rhetoric into your life,' it was stale and painful to endure and yet I wanted to see if the story might lift somehow beyond the anodyne. It didn't What do we learn? The mother is fine Being a single mother is fine The kids are fine There is no room for scope with such a cliche of a Male character (manchild) as a lead Nothing to learn from this movie It's an insult to evolved men and to (single) mothers Bad, bad bad movie taking us back in time instead of propelling us forward to conversations that actually matter