Matcollis
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
Sexylocher
Masterful Movie
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Phillipa
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Lee Eisenberg
I hadn't heard of Mandy Moore until the 2010s. It turned out that she had been famous for quite a while before then. An example was this 2003 mediocrity. It's a typical teen flick. Not the sort of thing that most people over the age of twenty-five will enjoy. I thought that the mom (Allison Janney, now the star of a show called "Mom") was the most interesting character, but she didn't get enough screen time.Basically, I prefer to think of the causes for which Mandy Moore stands (I haven't seen "This Is Us"). She's on the side of social justice.The only other cast members whose names I recognize are Dylan Baker, Peter Gallagher and Nina Foch.
murtha_schurm
A tragic death, a tragic teen pregnancy, a tragic car accident,a tragic divorce, a tragic broken up engagement...sigh...sob... the circle of life...Will Mandy Moore ever believe in love?Much like Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias, Mandy also gets an awful boy haircut and maintains her vulnerable but compassionate spirit despite all of womanhood's trials and tribulations surrounding her at every turn- through the guise of her caricaturishly naive and impossibly flat-haired pregnant friend, her sister who has a dwarf's build (no neck, huge head)and does the worst-ever portrayal of a drunken bachelorette, and her constipated-looking crone of a mother who got dumped for a younger woman who dresses badly.Mandy struggles with her own feelings for a boy who has the more feminine version of her haircut, she does some gratuitous yoga poses, drinks alcohol? out of chocolates, watches "Star Wars" and tries "to deal" with her ridiculously satanic-looking DJ dad.Don't worry; it ends with a wedding AND a birth AND a first kiss (and you knew that the timing would work out that way; so predictable).Aww...the circle of life... then close in on all the characters making stupid googly eyes at the new baby.
Indianstm
One of my friends had once rented this movie but I refused to watch it. I saw it and thought it was another cheesy teen love movie. and then not a dew days ago It came on TV and I happen to start watching it( right in the middle) with out knowing what I was watching. I loved it. There is nothing dishonest about this movie. The girl Halley is forced to face what a lot of teens are. But unlike some other Hollywood movie, Its not made cheesy or over dramatized. It is real. The truth. It wasn't a shocking hard movie about a girl who gets all the bad cards in life but it was a movie about things that happen everyday in people's lives that might not be so pleasant. I really liked the Character of Macon. He was funny and seemed to be unlike the person he looked like on the cover. So If you haven't seen it. Its not a cheesy teen romance movie. Its a good movie to watch and love.
dianawannabe1129
Mandy Moore stars in two of my all-time favorite movies, "Chasing Liberty" and this movie, "How to Deal". Based on two popular novels by my favorite author, Sarah Dessen, this movie deals with the life of cynical Halley (Moore), who doesn't believe in true love. Now, I'm not to say this is a romantic comedy, more of a romantic comedy-drama. I like dramatic films, such as this one, "Dead Poets Society", and "Chasing Liberty", but will open up to some comedies, such as "Uptown Girls" and "13 Going on 30". I'm kind of an open-ended mind. I give this movie a ten out of ten because of the great acting, all-star cast, and cute Trent Ford as a newcomer. They modified some details of the books, but I don't care. It's still one of my fave movies.
