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Mr. Fix It (2006) -- A man who tricks women into returning to their ex-boyfriends soon finds himself falling for one of his marks.

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Darin Ferriola (writer)
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When she thinks she can do better...let her.
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Cast

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David Boreanaz ... Lance Valenteen

Alana De La Garza ... Sophia
Scoot McNairy ... Dan

Pat Healy ... Bill Smith

Paul Sorvino ... Wally

Terrence Evans ... Charlie
Lee Weaver ... Ralph

Rodney Rowland ... Tip (as Rod Rowland)

Herschel Bleefeld ... Shiffy
Patricia Place ... Mrs. Cliverhorn

Regina McKee Redwing ... Nurse Savage
Gemini Barnett ... Walter

Dallas McKinney ... Bobby

Mariam Vardanyan ... Shiffy's Wife
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Michael Addison ... Man #1
Amy Allen ... Dancer

Michelle Allsopp ... Cute Girl (as Michelle Dunker)

Kirsten Berman ... Woman #1

Christian Eric Billings ... 80's Dad

Vanessa Born ... Pretty Latina

Cheryl Carter ... Reporter

Justin Charles ... Dodge baller
Nathan Gruwell ... Race Car Driver

Tara Killian ... Mary Christian

Kim Kim ... Korean Lady

Miranda Kwok ... Melanie

Shelley Malil ... Jaffe

Ellina McCormick ... Stunning Brunette

Clarissa Mancill McDonald ... Gorgeous Girl

Therese McLaughlin ... Women's Rights Speaker
Mary Matilyn Mouser ... Christine Pastore

Mina Olivera ... Kristina

Will Radford ... Davis

Dylan Rummel ... Young Lance

Linwood Sasser ... Karaoke D.J.

Kurt Scholler ... Man #4

Oren Skoog ... Bob Austin

Shauna Stoddart ... Martha

Kristi Vetica ... Good-looking Couple / Female

Tommy Villafranca ... Dog Catcher
Anjua Warfield-Maximo ... Supporting

Bud Watson ... Mr. Valenteen

Brendan Wayne ... Mechanic (as Danny LaCava)

Shea Weaver ... Spilled Coffee Girl
Mike Wike ... Friend of Sophia

Avis Wrentmore ... Female #3
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Also Known As:
The Perfect Lie (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for some sexual content.
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USA:93 min
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Fun Stuff

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Revealing mistakes: In the Samurai scene, when Lance pulls out the breakable wood the next couple of camera shots alternate showing the wood being precut and not being precut. more
Quotes:
Lance Valenteen: It's time to make her love me like a montage in a bad 80's movie. more
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References Jaws (1975) more
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Bulletproof Vest more

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Boreanaz delivers romance and laughs!, 6 May 2008
8/10
Author: tracampanella from United States

Boreanaz plays Lance Valenteen, a ladies man who gets hired by guys that have been dumped by their girlfriends. Lance, as "Mr. Fix It," seduces the guys ex-girlfriend and becomes such a bad boyfriend that the girl runs back into her ex-boyfriend's arms. I've always thought Boreanaz was too brooding and tortured on Angel, and in Bones he slurs his words and lulls me to sleep. But somehow in this movie he's transformed into a high energy, funny, vulnerable romantic lead. Maybe it's the blonde (or gold?) hair dye that changed him but whatever it is it works, and it works well.

The movie starts off, after some pretty funny scenes of "Mr. Fix It" at work, with Lance getting hired by Bill Smith (Pat Healy) to help him get back his ex-girlfriend, an Italian-accented hottie named Sophia Fiori (Alana De La Garza). Sophia dumped Bill because he was a chronic liar so Lance concocts a plan to seduce Sophia, get her to fall in love with him, and then reveal that all the reasons she fell in love with him were lies. With her heart broken, Bill's lies will pale in comparison.

The execution of the plan is pretty much the movie: They date, they start to fall for each other, blah, blah, blah…it's a romantic comedy so you pretty much know the story and how it ends. But that's the thing with this movie - you don't know! It takes the accepted conventions of romantic comedies and not only satirizes them, but uses them to lull the audience into a false sense of comfort so that each new shock is so unexpected that it's embraced by the viewer. The charm of the movie, and there's a lot of it, comes from its ability to work within the confines of the genre while carefully breaking some of it's rules, making for an entertaining, unpredictable story.

I've never seen the female lead before, Alana De La Garza, but she made the film. This movie is almost a romantic comedy for guys, which makes you root for Lance. But Garza plays the role of Sophia note perfect, with a dashing combination of innocence and beauty, that you start cringing knowing what lies ahead and hope somehow, someway, she won't get hurt. Halfway through the movie I wasn't sure who I was rooting for since you genuinely like both characters. "Mr. Fix It" has a message but unlike most films you believe the message because you've learned it as the characters have: through situations and conflict. It's not underdeveloped and forced as in other romantic comedies.

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