Fox Searchlight | Starring Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Matthew Gray Gubler, Chloe Moretz | Rated PG-13
Tom Hansen is a boy. Summer Finn is a girl. The movie tagline says it all: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn't.
Many of us can relate. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) believes in true love and thinks he's found it in Summer (Zooey Deschanel). But her past has left her jaded, and she is put off by his expected relational declaring and defining. She wants nothing to do with a so-called committed relationship and has all but abandoned the idea of traditional marriage. Still, she acts in a way that's heard of more often among guys (not all, I know) involved in these "nonrelationships": They say they're only friends and don't want commitment, but their actions indicate the opposite.
