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Pursuit of Happiness (2001)
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John Robert Zaring (writer)
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Sometimes your true love ends up being your first love.
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An advertising executive fails to realize that the woman of his dreams is his best friend since first grade, now married to his cheating co-worker. | add synopsis
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No Impact Man and the Pursuit of Happiness
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(From MTV Music News. 28 October 2009, 10:50 PM, PDT)
No Impact Man and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Pursuit of insipidity
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Frank Whaley | ... | Alan | |
| Annabeth Gish | ... | Marissa | |
| Amy Jo Johnson | ... | Tracy | |
| Patrick Van Horn | ... | Mike | |
| Cress Williams | ... | Ace | |
| Liz Vassey | ... | Renee | |
| Alex Hyde-White | ... | Paul | |
| Dawn Eason | ... | Janet | |
| Jenn Gross | ... | Sally | |
| Jean Stapleton | ... | Lorraine | |
| Kieran Mulroney | ... | Calvin | |
| Anne-Marie Johnson | ... | Devin Quinn | |
| Michelle Krusiec | ... | Miko (as Michele Krusiec) | |
| Megan Blake | ... | Minister | |
| Jessica Randle | ... | Coffee Shop Manager |
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Continuity: The level in Alan's glass changes between camera angles when he is drinking with Marissa at her house.
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I wanted to like this movie but it just kept being bad. The leading man was was so indecisive and emotionally flat with such a bored expression, it was hard to watch him. I started hoping he would just get on that plane to Seattle early on and stay out of the rest of the picture. The younger woman he is chasing calls hin unexpectedly to go to lunch and he acts like a immature nervous teenager on the phone. Earlier he throws a party to cover for lie he told her. He's too old to be acting like that. His lifetime relationship with another woman could have a been a real interesting idea, but they didn't seem very close to each other at all. At least she had an emotional scene in this film. The rest of the characters were also superficial, self-absorbed, and uninteresting. Hopefully, LA life isn't really like portrayed by these clueless zombies. "Everything happens for a reason" is repeated in this movie as if it explains anything, but comes off as the cliche that it is. I ended up wishing I had watched one of those slasher horror movies instead, where characters are killed off one by one.