2008 · romance · comedy
My Best Friend's Girl
Directed by Howard Deutch1h 41m2008
Lovestruck Dustin is dating Alexis, his ideal girlfriend, but when she dumps him for coming on too strong, Dustin takes drastic measures to win her back. He asks his best friend Tank to take her on the worst rebound date imaginable - his side job - so that she will come running back to him, and Tank reluctantly agrees. However, Alexis is more than a match for Tank's shock tactics and he begins to really fall for her, leaving him torn between loyalty to Dustin and his growing attraction toward Alexis.
Our read: My Best Friend's Girl (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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