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 | number of partners | fired from the job | based on novel | 

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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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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexual content and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 September 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

20 Times a Lady

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

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 Ally is taking a shower and she remembers the name "Valerio" she got out to write it down, she is wearing skin-color hot pants.

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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 Great Movie Mistakes IV (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Animal"
Written and Performed by Neon Trees

User Reviews

Got Anna Faris' Number!

Do you looooooove Rom-Coms? Do you looooooove Anna Faris? If the answer is yes to either, then you can add at least another star or two to this rating.

For me, rom-coms are just too damn predictable and therefore never going to get above a six rating (unless you're talking unconventional genre spasms like 500 Days of Summer).

However taking into account I don't like rom-coms, this is the highest rating one of these films will get from me. Anna Faris is extremely likable as ever and Chris Evans is very funny and probably a perfect specimen of man in the eyes of many an audience member.

Watch the trailer and you'll know how it ends but the journey provides the kind of rude laughs and romantic moments in iconic locations that are becoming ever more familiar in the modern rom-com.

Like the recent Friends With Benefits (not bad) and the hilarious Bridesmaids, What's Your Number? is ruder and funnier than many older rom-coms with hand-job jokes, potty-mouthed dialogue and a female character who is liberated, crude and played by a star who is definitely not too shy or vain to embarrass herself.

As Faris' character searches for the perfect man among her twenty ex-lovers, cameos from Martin Freeman and Andy Samberg maintain interest but it's Faris and Evans that provide the real laughs and chemistry.

Nothing new if you're not a rom-com fan but ticks all the boxes for the target audience and keeps the genre headed in a dirtier direction.