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Life As We Know It is not your usual romantic comedy. Many people who have seen the film fault the lead actors, Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, for their performances that sprinkled the film in different directions. Life As We Know it juggles being a romance and comedy film with raw emotional drama and slapstick funny spread in between. Some viewers will say that the lack of focal point takes away from the story, but when is life focused?
Eric Messer and Holly Berenson is an not likely match until they are compelled to come together after a tragic accident. Messer, played by Josh Duhamel, is a slacker with an hunger for women. Holly, played by Katherine Heigl, is an up-and-coming chef with direction. Their best friends Peter and Allison Novak set up Holly and Messer on a blind date, but the date went south shortly after it began. A year later the Novak's, played by Hayes MacAurther and Christina Hendricks, died in a tragic car accident. In their will, they named Messer and Holly as the legal guardians to their one-year-old daughter Sophie.
We are used to Katherine Heigl playing a woman on a mission, but her performance in Life As We Know It is thoughtful and sincere. Her ability to represent her role as Holly Berenson could be based on her recent adoption of her daughter or Heigl finally locked down a role that allowed her to expand beyond the neurotic, man-hating characters she has played in the recent past. Whatever the case, she showed something more in Life As We Know It and it worked wonders.
Josh Duhamel has a way of charming viewers even when the films are iffy at best, but he really set the bar in Life As We Know It. Duhamel's comedic lure shows in every frame, but his ability to grow his character without losing that charm is a talent. His talent makes the character's struggle more believable because he can be vulgar and emotionally exposed in one scene, which shows the constant struggle people face in real life.
Heigl has proven that she can play the comic fall in her films such as Knocked Up, but in Life As We Know It she kicks up the passion to where her pain, fear, and anger are believable. Duhamel's transition from innocence to being a father helped keep the film from becoming a mess. The major displeasure of Life As We Know It was that Christina Hendricks had such a small role. Her charisma and fierceness that you see in Mad Men worked just as well on the big screen. It would not come as a shock if Hendricks starts showing up in longer roles in films very soon because even her small performance in Life As We Know it made an impression.
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