Movie Notes: My Life In Ruins

Synopsis
Greek-American tour guide Georgia (Nia Vardalos) is at the breaking point, when a saboteur co-worker assigns her a particularly unruly group of tourists. Hilarity ensues.

Synopsis
Greek-American tour guide Georgia (Nia Vardalos) is at the breaking point, when a saboteur co-worker assigns her a particularly unruly group of tourists. Hilarity ensues.

Ad guy Benjamin (Matthew McConaughey) bets with his buddies that magazine writer Andie (Kate Hudson) will fall in love with him in ten days. Meanwhile, she’s writing an article on how to dump a man in the same length of time. Neither knows of the other’s ulterior motives. Hilarity ensues.

Blame my wife for dragging out this Sandra Bullock comedy from a few years back, but guess what, I liked it. It doesn’t pretend to be better than it is, a ridiculous farce that’s entertaining and amusing in all the right places. Plus, it has a dose of Shatner.