I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

As an attempt to make a modern screwball comedy this film is to be applauded, but while it has its moments, and a very strong cast, I can't say I ever found it to be as funny or entertaining as it was intended to be.Owen Wilson does his 'Mr nice guy' act that we've seen many, many times before, and Imogen Poots' accent got on my nerves after a while, as did the constant linking device with her being interviewed.It does boast a performance from Jennifer Aniston that's a bit different from what we're used to, and the always welcome sight of Rhys Ifans, but other than that this was quite standard, unexceptional entertainment.

Imogen Poots is very good in an exhausting role, that of a starstuck "paid muse" (i.e., call girl) in New York City who manages to land an audition for a new Broadway play--one being directed by the same man who recently requested her services and then paid her $30,000 to find a new profession (he has a soft spot for beautiful prostitutes with ambition, and has been 'tipping' them all over town). Director and co-writer Peter Bogdanovich (who shares the screenplay credit with ex-wife Louise Stratten) is a softie for neurotic, lovestruck characters who come in and out of each other's lives, and his dialogue is, by turns, witty, funny, abrasive and annoying (but never ugly--Bogdanovich is a lot like the Poots character, he believes in charmed lives, meaningful encounters and happy endings). High-strung screwball comedy starts out fun but then begins to grind the viewer down in lopsided valentines. As per usual in a Bogdanovich picture, there are a lot of people to look at and fast patter to pick up on, and the colorful cast happily goes with the flow. Not a comeback for the filmmaker, but not an embarrassment either. ** from ****

I watched this at home on DVD from my public library. My wife chose not to watch it, not her kind of comedy. It almost has a Woody Allen sensibility to it.The story itself is being told by Imogen Poots (British actress using her best OTT fake Brooklyn accent) as Isabella Patterson. She is well-dressed and well-spoken and in the present time doing very well. But it hasn't always been that way, as we see in flashbacks that actually make up the movie.She was an aspiring actress who still lived with her constantly quarreling parents, and she worked as a call girl to earn money to support herself and to help her parents. It was just a job to her.Owen Wilson is a director, Arnold Albertson. He has traveled to New York to prepare for directing a new stage play, it will star his wife who is traveling over a day or two later with the kids. So alone in his hotel room Arnold calls an escort service and asks for 'Glo-stick', the pseudo that Isabella uses. They have a good time, he takes her out to dinner, they come back and sleep together, then he asks her to quit doing what she does, and he says he will give her $30,000 if she will quit. The money will help her start fresh and do something she wants with her life.So we have a guy who gets horny, cheats on his wife, but has a generous streak that makes him want to help young ladies have a better life. An interesting concept and it is carried forward in this movie in a very entertaining way.The cast is very good, the writing is inventive and witty, and as the story unfolds a number of interesting entanglements surface. It does not attempt to judge who might be right or who might be wrong, just glimpses into the lives of these interesting characters.SPOILERS: The spit first hits the fan when the next day Isabella shows up to audition for a part in the play Arnold is directing and his wife is starring in. Of course he doesn't want her there, it would be awkward and dangerous for him but she is great and has to have the part. In other scenes Arnold happens upon several other young ladies who had been similarly helped with gifts of $30,000 to get fresh starts and each one thanks him for saving them. Of course his wife finds out and in the end Isabella is the only one who comes out smelling good in this whole mess.

I really tried to like this movie. It seems like it would have everything that you would like in a film.I endured more than half of it even though it reminded me of a really bad Woody Allen movie and I loved Woody Allen's 70s films. I was actually really upset at my husband for spending over $1 for renting this piece of crap from the Redox. We could not finish it. I LOVE Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, but this was one of the worst movies I have attempted to watch in the past several years. The time I wasted on trying to like this movie is time that I can never get back. Seriously, watch an episode of Hoarders or Family Feud as they are far better than this movie.