Mr. Fix It (2006)

Director:

Darin Ferriola

Writer:

Darin Ferriola (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

When she thinks she can do better...let her.

Plot:

A man who tricks women into returning to their ex-boyfriends soon finds himself falling for one of his marks.

Plot Keywords:

Deception | Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship

Cast

  (Credited cast)

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

Also Known As:

The Perfect Lie (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some sexual content.

Runtime:

USA:93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Chicaray Films

Goofs:

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.

Quotes:

Lance Valenteen: It's time to make her love me like a montage in a bad 80's movie.

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Soundtrack:

Bulletproof Vest

Boreanaz delivers romance and laughs!

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.