On Christmas, jobless, penny-less, guy-less Megan tries to ease out her stress by looking for a quick one night stand online. She gets what looks like her fit in Alec, but it turns out to be not such as memorable. Yet as she turns to leave the next morning, they find that they're stuck in the building alone due to heavy snowing. Alec gets the initiative to get them interact better by asking Megan to pretend that they didn't have sex the other night. The two get to know each other better, and soon the conversation changes to reviewing their intercourse experience last night. They end up giving each other pointers so they'd be better for their own future couple. When boredom strikes, they resort to some extremes, breaking into a neighbor's apartment. Soon they end up practicing their own recipes. They find that not just their theories are right and they feel better doing it, they themselves grow more fond of each other.
The bummer comes when accidentally Megan discovers that currently Alec has already has a girlfriend. As the snow clears a bit, Megan goes carrying a disappointment. Megan's roommate Faiza asks her politely to move out; which Megan doesn't mind since without a job she's being a liability. Alec realizes that his perfect someone is not his current girlfriend and reconciles it with her; which he gets away with smoothly. Having a hard time finding Megan, Alec goes to the cops about the the neighbor's apartment, putting Megan in jail. Megan refuses Alec's bail, to the confusion of the cops. But she's freed as Faiza bails her. Alec storms in and does the make up speech. After at first she refused, Megan finally accepts Alec's offer to start dating, though they both now don't have anywhere to go.
Opening the movie with the scenes of the main conflict build up, circling back to character and background build up then continuing the main conflict surprise, the movie makes quite a nice effort in back and forth story flow to emphasize the significance of the main theme. But since the story confines the main characters to a closed environment, it doesn't leave any room for any unpredictable story development.
The major bad thing about this is that the movie feels overly romantic that the comedies don't feel funny. The screenplay just doesn't seem to develop or build up any thing that can really crack a laugh. There's virtually no practical joke or slapstick anywhere in this movie. This makes the romance, already quite a well developed part, stand out even more. Actually the romance parts feel more dominant that it kind of make the comedy part feels like it's just some kind of color variation to the story.
Analeigh Tipton doesn't quite get her role to be funny. It's quite bad that it's kind of her first at lead roles. Miles Teller is quite good here, although I think his That Awkwar Moment (2014) performance is way better than this one. Well, seeing these performances' quality, I think it's quite normal due to the movie being director Max Nichols' first directing job also.
I kind of agree with the popular verdict of a 6 out of 10 score for this one. A recommendation is a solid no, even though it's anther Miles Teller flick. It does kind of entertain as it has quite a nice romance story, but the comedy is kind of lame.
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