Wow! Such a good movie.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

How often do white peoples go sit by the creek alone? Poorly written opportunities to talk, not great acting, & very little chemistry.

This is a positively dreadful rehashing of the "Big Chill" motif. Some of the characters are positively uninteresting and rank downward into gratingly obnoxious. The few who do manage to attract my attention quickly repel me with their poor acting or horridly written dialogue. In keeping with the modern trend of trying to intertwine a multiplicity of different stories in order to avoid having to come up with a real plot is brought to new heights of dullness in this insipid production.Jeff Stephenson has directed some good works in the past, but with this one I think he must have been just as unenthusiastic as I am. Or possibly drunk. Looking through the cast of characters I see only one actor who turned out a good performance, veteran Barry Corbin of Northern Exposure fame. His depiction of colorful Uncle Dennis provides the only bright spots in this unfortunate hodgepodge of trite stereotypes.If you are a student of writing, directing or acting, study this movie as a splendid example of what not to do. Otherwise, don't waste your time.

There are 10 significant characters in this film. Only 4 of them have anything resembling a distinct personality. There are two separate love triangles on display. Both require the people involved to be stupid while one begins and the other ends with wildly abrupt emotional transformations. There are so many musical interludes slapping you in the face that the viewer eventually becomes numb to them all. There's a character who receives a revelation about his life from staring at fireflies. In case I'm being too subtle, Not Since You is written with all the depth and intelligence of a TV ad for your local chiropractor.8 people who were friends in New York City in the summer of 2001 reunite years later in Georgia when one of them gets married. There's Sam (Desmond Harrington), an aspiring writer who looks like a grim-faced male model. Back in the day, Sam was in love with Amy (Kathleen Robertson). Why? Who knows? This movie never bothers to explain or justify any of the relationships that exist in this story. On arriving for the wedding, Sam learns that Amy has been married for years to the Fabio-haired Ryan (Christian Kane) but even though the two ex-lovers haven't seen or spoken to each other for the better part of a decade, they're instantly consumed with pathetically obvious longing for each other. The conflict between that and Amy's marriage is the heart of Not Since You, but the possibility of two non-entities breaking the heart of a third is not the kind thing to keep you on the edge of your seat.Then there's Howard (Jon Abrahams), an annoyingly aggressive entrepreneur who's still seething over his ex-girlfriend Victoria (Sunny Mabrey) leaving him for his best friend Billy (Will Estes). Victoria wants to get married but Billy is afraid that will just hurt Howard even more. Howard's bad feelings have stewed for years until he can barely contain them so, of course, his wounded ego is eventually healed after a 30 second conversation with Victoria. Now, Victoria spends the whole frickin' film demanding that Billy patch things up with Howard, but apparently she never bothered talking to him herself. Why? Who knows?The two remaining friends, Joey and Sarah (Elden Hanson and Sara Rue), get smushed together in an infatuation that helps to heal Joey's feelings of 9/11 survivor's guilt. That storyline actually works much better on screen than my description suggests, but it's still lacking even the most basic sort of grounding or detail, like why Joey and Sarah never hooked up when they were in New York.Oh, and Barry Corbin wanders through the film acting all Southern and stuff.Kathleen Robertson is a stunning beauty and she and the rest of the cast certainly seem like capable performers. However, they're given roles to play that are so plain and thin they're virtually non-existent. Not Since You is all about 8 friends but it gives no indication of why these people were ever friends or what their friendships were like. You can tell these actors are trying to play these parts as real and believable as they can. They've just got nothing onto which they can grab.Co-writer/Director Jeff Stephenson does a simplistic, though ultimately adequate job of juggling these multiple plot lines. The scenes look okay for the most part and things unfold in an understandable manner. He never does anything as a director, though, to overcome the vacuous and sketchy script he helped write.If you haven't figured it out, this is an attempt at doing 21st century version of The Big Chill. That there's nothing of style of substance here to define whether this generational tale is about Gen X, Gen Y or the Millennials kind of encapsulates the shallow failure of this motion picture. Three people wrote this screenplay but there needed to be a fourth to come in and fill up all the empty spaces in this story and these characters. Lacking that, Not Since you does not need to be watched.

A creepy man who looks like a rapist comes home after a 3-year journey (to Europe, apparently to find himself), and is inexplicably horrified to find out that his ex-girlfriend from 3 years ago is married. He embarks upon a plan that involves sitting around and frowning, and giving snotty looks to her kindly new male-model looking husband (who is constantly going out of his way to be nice).The filmmakers did not understand some of the usual visual language of cinema with how they present this ex-girlfriend. For example, when we first see her, she is doing her make-up with her friends. She's in the middle, and she's the tallest. This makes her seem vain and imperious. Later, we see her combing her hair while talking to her husband, but not looking at him. This makes her seem cold and witchy. The actress is very beautiful but very cold looking, with very sculpted, unnatural features. She almost never smiles. Basically, she seems like the mean girl in the '80's movie, or one of those girls who was mean to Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding.They don't make her likable or inviting, is what I'm saying, so we can't relate to the creepy guy's fascination with her. Actually though, they do seem made for each other, because just as she is plastic and icy, he is sinister and ominous. Come to think of it, they are very like Heathcliff (not the cat) and Catherine from that Kate Bush song Wuthering Heights.Meanwhile, his other friends cope with their own earth-shattering, soul-destroying problems. One of them is a tiny, babbling man who does everything he can to irritate the crap out of everyone around him. He not only is a salesman trying to pitch ideas, but he never ever stops talking. He is stunned that a girl dumped him for a quieter friend of theirs. When he is not badgering rich people about investing in his simple ideas, he is picking fights in public, walking around with a shotgun, and splashing people in the pool.(What he acts like is that little dog from the old Warner Brothers Cartoon that always ran around the bigger dog, talking nonstop about what great pals they were.) Babble Guy's ex-girlfriend who dumped him for Quiet Guy just wants to get married. Quiet Guy apparently keeps putting it off or something. He may or may not be waiting for Babble Guy to stop holding a grudge, it's not too clear. There isn't any more to their characters than that, so they are easy to describe. She pressures him about getting married and complains about him, and he tries to fend off Babble Guy's random physical assaults. Babble guy is tiny but feisty, like a kitty-cat.A third friend is a man who looks just like a hobbit, or like Lars Ulrich. He is an alcoholic, but not one who does any of the problematic things that real alcoholics do. He doesn't stink, pick fights, vomit a lot, have health problems, annoy people, lose money, fail to show up when expected, wake up in strange places, be mean, cry a lot, get into accidents, or any of the other things alcoholics do that make them impossible to be around. All he really does is take naps on pool chairs or porch swings. So, he is a cute, cuddly alcoholic who might smell like Downy fabric softener. Luckily for him, a perfect, kindly, beautiful white girl decides that he is exactly the man she's been looking for, and she walks around their little town with him a lot. After he responds to her sexual overture with a tearful confession, all of his mental problems lift from his shoulders and drift away like a cloud on a summer's morning.This movie has a very nice musical score, and a pretty scene with some fireflies. I was glad that they didn't set that scene to the song "Fireflies", so kudos. That scene unfortunately ends in a zoom-in close-up of Rapist Guy's face, as he apparently realizes something creepy, and he gives a terrifying serial killer smile at the camera. They cut to another scene before he can break out into a maniacal laugh. (Oddly, when you find out what he figured out, it's just that he and the ex-girlfriend aren't right for each other.)If you want to see the tough guy who always beats the crap out of everybody on Leverage be a nice, sweet person, he plays the Ice Woman's new husband.