Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 07/18/2003(USA)
Release Date: 12/09/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations, Drug Content, Alcohol Consumption, Watch With Your Teen, Youth Substance Use
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Teen
pop star
Mandy Moore stars in the
romantic comedy How to Deal. Directed by British filmmaker
Clare Kilner, the script is based on two of author
Sarah Dessen's popular
teen novels:
Someone Like You and
That Summer.
Halley (
Moore) is a teenager trying to make sense of the faltering romantic relationships within her immediate social sphere. Her mother,
Lydia (
Allison Janney), can't seem get a date, while her father (
Peter Gallagher) is getting remarried to a woman that nobody seems to like.
Halley's wedding-obsessed sister,
Ashley (
Mary Catherine Garrison), is engaged to
Lewis (
MacKenzie Astin), a guy that is completely wrong for her. Meanwhile, bad boy
Macon Forrester (
Trent Ford) won't leave
Halley alone. Just when she decides to become cynical about love because of all the romantic disappointments around her, a troubled situation involving her best friend
Scarlett (
Alexandra Holden) changes her outlook.
~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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