Life as We Know It

Last month, my hubby and I went to cinema to watch a movie, any interesting movie. We end up with buying tickets for a movie entitled ‘Life As We Know It’, starring the handsome Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl. The tagline is “A comedy about taking it one step at a time”.

            The synopsis goes like this. Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-coming caterer and owned a café called Fraiche (she’s quite an uptight person) and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel) is a promising network sports director (with care-free lifestyle). The movie’s liveliest scene is its opening pre-credit sequence in which Messer picks up Holly for a disastrous blind date arranged by their mutual best friends. Arriving an hour late on a motorcycle with no dinner reservations and a post-date rendezvous already lined up, Messer is the kind of guy who used to be called a toxic bachelor. He loses his last shred of appeal when, with Holly at his side, he takes a booty call from his late-night hookup. Holly, in a rage, turns around and walks back into the house. After a catastrophic first date, the only thing they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter, Sophie. But when their bestfriends died in a car accident, they suddenly become all Sophie has in the world as they were named as co-guardians of the child. Holly and Messer are forced to put their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find some common ground while living under one roof. This is where the fun begins. Watch how Holly tries to make Sophie eat baby food, how they handle the baby’s dirty diaper, there was one scene where Sophie’s poo smudged on Holly’s face when their neighbors came to visit..Watch how Sophie started to walk, etc..It was LOL..Long story short, living under one roof has sparks romance between them. But then their upward career trajectories kick in and create new problems. Messer went to take a job offer at Pheonix and Holly was left alone caring for the child. But not for long because along came a pediatrician who loves her and Sophie. One of the scenes that touched my heart is when finally Sophie can talk and she said “mama” to Holly, only to realize that there was no Messer to share it with. She then realizes that together (Holly, Messer and Sophie) they are a perfect family. 

It’s a nice story of life where sometimes unexpected things happen and somehow, life turns out to be better in the end. And life as we know it, will never be the same.