Hyland is bubbly and sometimes a little too energetic, but she's always likeable as a fearless young woman who cuts through the nonsense around her. Her chemistry with the spirited Williams is charming, both when Mara and Jake are playing around and when they're getting sappy and romantic. So the scenes when they turn serious actually resonate strongly. "It takes more than love to make marriage work," Mara says. It sounds like a simple aphorism, but it also rings true in the moment.

In the final act, the script finally attempts to dip beneath the surface, exploring some rather profound things about the nature of marriage, most notably male and female roles in society. There's never much of a doubt about there this is headed, although at least it's possible to hold out hope that Diego's script might take a few left turns to get there. And it definitely makes us laugh, and perhaps even sigh, along the way.

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4.Sep.19

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