This time of year the Lyric gets a lot of heavy dramatic films.  It is refreshing to have a romantic comedy slash drama to cleanse the palate.  I didn’t really see this as an Oscar winning movie bu it was a good change of pace and it was a good movie.  It made me want to rent a Hertz car and fly off on an American Airlines jet to, say, upper Wisconsin.

I worked for a not to be named copy company (no product placement in this review) for twenty years and spent a bunch of time flying between Colorado, California and New York.  I had a lot of miles but no where NEAR Ryan’s miles.  While he enjoys traveling and “has a number in his head” for just about anything, what the audience sees is the sameness of how cities look from the air and how even the graphite level credit card still gets you a room with a bed.  Ryan is teamed with Natalie, an efficiency expert who is about to revolutionize the job Ryan is so good at - firing people.  The recurring theme in this movie is two sides of the same coin.  I’ll not spoil the rest of the movie because I want you to see it.  It is a good movie and the repetitious storyline really works.

Academy Award winning movie?  Nah, I don’t think so.  Good movie and something to watch on a cold winter night with someone you love or at least want to get down and boogie with?  Yeah!  I liked it.