Catch and Release (2006)

This movie starts with the funeral of Gray (Jennifer Garner)'s fiancé Grady. His friend Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) has sex with a server. Dennis (Sam Jaeger) is insanely responsible and his other friend Sam (Kevin Smith) is having his own difficulties. But Fritz is hiding a secret. Grady has been sending $3000 a month to a woman (Juliette Lewis) in LA.For a movie starting from a funeral, this has a lot of light hearted humor. Most of that is due to Kevin Smith's work. Writer/director Susannah Grant has put on a complicated heart warming struggle. It's not an easy subject to go from a depressed angry place. Jennifer Garner makes those parts work. The movie struggles when it gets to more traditional rom-com space. Overall there are enough interesting moments and Kevin Smith cracking jokes to make this a good movie.

Dear Kevin, May I suggest you stick to writing? Forget about all those highly paid actors and their wonderful lifestyles - it ain't for you.I could only watch 25 minutes of this film before I decided I had to warn people off it - and all because of the scenes where you appear. The "planer" scene - terrible. The fly-fishing scene - awful.I had to laugh when I read this review by "Mama-C from Bensalem, PA": "Kevin Smith was definitely the comic relief in this movie. According to Smith, he claims that he can't act and that's why he plays Silent Bob. I say -- NOT TRUE!!! Kevin Smith was perfect as "Sam" and his acting was very good." I can only assume this was your mother using the pseudonym "Mama-C" who wrote that.Please stick to writing Kev, there's a good boy.

To tell the truth i just have gotten finished with this movie like 20 seconds ago and i got on IMDb to see what people actually thought about this movie. I only really watched it to make my woman content with my being but in reality, i shouldn't of. This was an awful awful movie with no moral direction in any way whatsoever. I cant come home to my kids telling them i saw the most compelling movie that will kick my drug and instinct challenges away. Jennifer is a really feeble minded woman who doesn't fully understand that; love is another word for sex with friend every night while I'm sleeping on my dead fiancés couch 2 days later. Her acting actually was horrific, on the first kiss, was i the only person that noticed that she was smiling before she kissed him and when they gave her the close up she tried that robot face again? Kevin should be ashamed, Silent bob is his calling. There is a difference between good acting and overacting, and for loosing his best friend, he was doing neither. I hope this ruins his career as actor. I honestly believed that the movie would end as her falling for that one guy whatever his name is, but nope, she just... shes a trooper. I cant believe this is my gf favorite movie -_- i have no hope for humanity in the arts anymore

This film is very easy to sum up; Lazy meandering plot, no chemistry between ANYONE, uninspired performances and hackneyed (supposed to be clever and amusing) dialog. This film also contains a scene that makes me wince every time I see it (and I have seen it in countless movies) and that is the old "turning on the blender with no lid" shtick. Does any idiot ever do that? I watched this at my wife's urging and stopped watching about three quarters of the way through when she advised me that it didn't get any better. This now makes about eight Jennifer Garner movies that I've seen and I haven't liked her in ANY of them. Maybe that will be my red flag for future films.