Problems With the Film.

Surely in a film of this nature, if you're not going to play it for laughs (such as in Big), you have to offer some sort of rational explanation for an individual to lose 15 years of their life/memories in a non-trauma situation. You don't just pose that it happens overnight and then move on smartly.

The 25 year old Marie we see, appears to bear no relation to the 40 year old woman we meet later on. She seems as confused as we are and ends up spending little time at her office for a supposed financial guru (that's when she's not trashing it).

Similarly for much of the first half of the film Paul isn't really seen, so when he comes in to the picture ready to divorce Marie, there's no real sense of sympathy for either character, because we don't have an inkling as to why things have eventuated as they have.

The lord above only knows how this mess was promoted as some sort of rom-com. It's far from it. The funniest thing about AWL is the dvd box. It has heaps of warm, fuzzy shots of Marie and Paul laughing, smiling and hugging together, that are simply not in the film.🐭