What's Your Number? (2011)

A woman looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love.

Director:

Mark Mylod

Writers:

Gabrielle Allan (screenplay), Jennifer Crittenden (screenplay),

Stars:

Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anna Faris	...	Ally Darling
Chris Evans	...	Colin Shea
Ari Graynor	...	Daisy Darling
Blythe Danner	...	Ava Darling
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Mr. Darling
Oliver Jackson-Cohen	...	Eddie Vogel
Heather Burns	...	Eileen
Eliza Coupe	...	Sheila
Kate Simses	...	Katie
Tika Sumpter	...	Jamie
Joel McHale	...	Roger the Boss
Jacquelyn Doucette	...	Sheila's Mom
Chris Pratt	...	Disgusting Donald
Denise Vasi	...	Cara
Sondra James	...	Plant Lady

Storyline

Ally is a woman who has many ex-boyfriends who turned out to be losers. Now she believes that she can't find a good guy. But when she runs into one of her exes who is now a 'Prince Charming', she decides to look up all of her exes to see if any of them have changed for the better. And when she has trouble locating them, she asks her neighbor Colin, who sleeps with women every night and sneaks out the morning after to avoid talking to them, to help her.

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Plot Keywords:

prince charming | womanizer | girl in panties | blue panties | white panties | 

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Taglines:

Ally's looking for the best ex of her life.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

14A

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 September 2011 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Contando a mis ex

Filming Locations:

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$5,421,669 (USA) (30 September 2011)

Gross:

$13,987,482 (USA) (11 November 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Regency Enterprises, New Regency Pictures, Contrafilm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

106 min 117 min (director's cut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Aziz Ansari makes a voice cameo at the end of the movie on Anna's voice mail.

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Goofs

When the girls are playing the numbers game in the bar and Ally tears her piece of paper, the 2nd half is different shapes in all shots, but when they put the 2 pieces together, it's almost straight tear down the middle.

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Quotes

Colin Shea: I don't know why you care so much about your number anyway
Ally Darling: You guys all have this ideal girl in your minds, and if our number gets too high, we can't be that girl.
Colin Shea: The ideal girl. Tell me about her.
Ally Darling: You know, you can take her home to the family, she's smart, but not smarter than you, and she bakes apple pies with your mom and place catch with your handicap sister. But then when you're alone, she takes off her glasses and puts on a vinyl cat suit and fucks you sideways
Colin Shea: That girl doesn't exist, ...
[...]

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Connections

Featured in Maltin on Movies: The Avengers Special (2012)

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Soundtracks

Three Times a Lady
Written by Lionel Richie
Performed by Chris Evans

User Reviews

Romantic comedy with a pinch of extra topping...

For a typical romantic comedy, "What's Your Number" sort of surprised me, as it was just a tad more than your average movie of this sort.

What initially made me watch it was Anna Faris (playing Ally), because she usually makes funny comedies, and I have always found her acting to be enjoyable, and her selection of characters is usually great as well. Her performance in "What's Your Number", however, wasn't her best performance in her career, in my opinion. It wasn't bad either, it was just that she are better off in straight comedies in my opinion, not these romantic comedies. But hey, we all have different likes and dislikes.

Working with Farris was Chris Evans (playing Collin), whom I can't claim to be a big fan of. I think I have only seen him in the previous couple of superhero movies that he did. And I think he was better cut out for action movies of that sort compared to the romantic comedies. I will say that Farris and Evans did have a certain good amount of on-screen chemistry that worked out well enough.

As for the story in "What's Your Number", well it is basically your average standard run-of-the-mill plot line here. An unlikely couple starting out as strangers, then eventually becoming closer and closer, until they realize that the right one was right there in front of them all along. So nothing new to be seen here in that department. The plot did thicken with the layer added when the story was given the part with how many sexual partners does a woman have in her lifetime. That aspect was kind of fun and did add some pretty awkward situations here and there.

For a comedy, there wasn't all that many laughs throughout this movie. The best scene, and the best laugh (for me), was the very last phone call that Ally got while they were in the apartment. That cracked me up.

"What's Your Number" isn't a boring movie, and it does have some more substance compared to other romantic comedies. However, I think you have to be a woman to fully appreciate this movie. As a guy, I can now say that I have seen it, and it is doubtful that I will be putting the movie on a second time, unless wifey wants to watch it again.