A winning presence on TV's That '70s Show, Grace exudes remarkable comfort on screen as a leading man, even beleaguered as he is here, and carries the right amount of desperation and confidence to make Pete a suitable competitor for the larger-than-life Hamilton. While Bosworth's Rosalee is the character upon which this love triangle pivots, it's Topher Grace who provides much of the movie's momentum.
With little other recourse than to throw his own hat in the ring, Pete makes a valiant bid for Rosalee's affections, to considerable comic effect. When Rosalee returns, Pete figures he'll finally take his shot at winning her heart – especially now that she's seen her idol and hopefully has no more fantasies of Hollywood romance – but Hamilton follows her home, and attempts to soak up a bit of her wholesomeness to redeem the bad boy image he's so carefully cultivated.
Though her store manager and would-be boyfriend Pete (Grace) voices his many reservations, Rosalee goes anyway, and the A-list bad boy finds himself surprisingly charmed by the girl's down-to-earth personality. Kate Bosworth, Topher Grace and Josh Duhamel do their material proud, and transform familiar territory into one of the new year's most enjoyable silver-screen experiences.īosworth ( Wonderland) plays Rosalee Futch, a freshly-scrubbed Piggly Wiggly checkout girl who, on a lark, enters an online contest for an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood to meet her idol, mega-movie star Tad Hamilton (Duhamel). That this film is decidedly more male-centric (in that it possesses not one but two appealing leading men) will likely matter little to the female constituency in attendance that they represent opposite sides of the same coin for guys may make the difference between a middling winter hit and a deserved, mammoth comedy that finds the elusive balance between "chick flick" and "guy movie" with the precision of Cupid's arrow.
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