Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 09/14/2007(USA
Release Date: 01/29/2008
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Flags: Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Magnolia
Love at first sight has some interesting repercussions a few months down the line in this offbeat
romantic comedy.
Ira Black (
Chris Messina) is a wildly neurotic thirtysomething who can't get his life in gear -- the son of a pair of therapists,
Arlene (
Judith Light) and
Seymour (
Robert Klein),
Ira still hasn't finished his grad school dissertation, he's been in therapy for 12 years, and can't bring himself to settle down with his longtime girlfriend
Lea (
Maddie Corman). When both
Lea and his analyst inform
Ira that they don't want to see him anymore, he decides he needs to make some changes.
Ira joins a health club, where he meets
Abby Willoughby (
Jennifer Westfeldt), who is supposed to sell memberships to the gym but is much better at listening to people's problems. The two discover they have a strong and immediate rapport, and
Ira asks
Abby to marry him only a few hours later.
Abby says yes, and soon the couple are wed. However, it isn't until after they've been married for a few weeks that
Ira discovers
Abby has been divorced twice already, and it makes him very uneasy about their relationship. Despite more therapy,
Ira asks
Abby for a divorce, and it sends shock waves through their families --
Arlene begins having an affair with
Michael (
Fred Willard),
Abby's free-spirited father, while
Seymour commiserates with
Abby's mother
Lynne (
Frances Conroy), and eventually parents and children are all meeting together in group therapy for couples.
Ira and Abby was written by leading lady
Jennifer Westfeldt, who was also screenwriter and star for the independent hit
Kissing Jessica Stein.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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