Holly (Katherine Heigl) is chic, professional, put together, and drives a smart car. “Messer” (Josh Duhamel) lives by the seat of his pants, gets into girl’s pants and rides a motor bike. But tonight, they have to face the small talk and go on a date, since their mutual best friends, Alison and Peter (Christina Hendricks and Hayes McArthur) have just fixed them up. But that was back in 2007. Now it’s 2010 and life goes on. Except for best friends, Alison and Peter who are killed in a car crash, leaving their only baby daughter, Sophie (Alexis Clagett) an orphan. Seems the only thing Holly and Messer have in common, aside from two dead best friends, is that they don’t like kids. But when they’re named the dual guardians of little Sophie, suddenly life as they know it, has changed. While Katherine Heigl is usually one-dimensional in these rom coms, this one has some heart-tugging and mature moment that give Heigl both a likeable domestic and maternal edge. Similar to all couples raising babies, this story has its ups and its downs, its test of parental patience and a little bit of grief (and a lot of diaper poop.) But the story also transitions nicely from shock to hatred and then to jealousy (of other people they’re dating) to finally and possibly love. You know how it’s probably going to end, but somehow, when sitting in the theater, you don’t seem to mind. Three tiaras
