Greg Berlanti’s romantic comedy has such an improbable premise that you can’t take it anything like as seriously as it takes itself.
Caterer Holly (Katherine Heigl) meets sports broadcaster Eric (Josh Duhamel) on a blind date that’s been set up by mutual friends the Novaks. Years later, the Novaks die in a car crash and Holly and Eric are named legal guardians of their baby, Sophie.
Considering they don’t even like each other and have no desire to live together, it seems the judge assigning the infant to them is bonkers. Naturally, everything goes pear-shaped — lots of poo — but we know Holly and Eric will fall for both the child and each other.
The film, featuring a good turn from Sarah Burns as an unsurprisingly worried social worker, drifts along with a screenplay from Ian Deitchman and Kristin Rusk Robinson that has a certain pawky humour. Heigl and Duhamel are good but sunk by a directionless storyline.
Life As We Know It
Cert: 12A
