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A hopelessly clichéd love story starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart plays it too safe every calculated step of the way.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a title more seriously scared of passion or life's randomness than "Love Happens," and the movie it belongs to falls squarely into that category of Hollywood product fatally intimidated by unpredictability. That this superficial romance between a successful self-help author and a nurturing florist is also a film about overcoming the tragedy of losing a loved one only makes its clichéd insipidity that much more irksome. Aaron Eckhart plays Burke Ryan, a widower who, three years on from his wife's passing in a terrible car accident, is a star grief expert who can sell out a convention hall with his workshops and speeches but -- surprise, surprise -- doesn't heed his own coping advice in private. [...]

di Robert Abele, articolo completo (3916 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 18 settembre 2009