No Strings Attached

Last year it seems movies about young beautiful people having uncomplicated sex were all the rage. I saw at the theater some Timberlake/Kunis movie that was just awful, I still chide my sister in law for picking that one out.

This movie starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. The movie starts with them at summer camp and Adam finding out that his Dad is leaving his Mom. Even at a young age Emma is not good with " feelings" but consoles him in an awkward way.

They run into each other at college at a fraternity party and eventually find themselves both living in New York where she is a medical resident and he works on a kids television show.

As the movie takes off Adam has been dumped by his girlfriend and after hitting what he calls rock bottom calls Emma in a drunken state and ends up waking up at her house. Not knowing where he is or who he was with all the roommates in the house pretend to have had sex with him and then Emma appears. He learns he called her, did a strip tease and passed out. Soon, however, something does, but Adam learns after that she does not want a relationship.

The movie is predictable. Sex buddies becomes their relationship. They start to develop feelings. Hurt feelings ensue. Make up and reconciliation and then the movie ends with them facing starting a real dating relationship.

The acting is better in this, not so much focus on the sex scenes, and the movie works. Not Shakespeare by any means but the movie works. Portman is very attractive and as moronic as he may be in real life Kutcher is hard not to like in this role as well.