Catch and Release (2006)

I was sick. It was on tv. I watched it. And, actually, it wasn't so bad.

Jennifer Garner's fiance has died before the start of the movie. We see her on the day of her wedding at the funeral and she, as a voiceover, is talking to the dead fiance. She's a bit of a shrinking violet and needed him to be the outgoing one. She always made the safe choices, was the rational one. Over the course of the movie, she gains her independence and ultimately realizes that the fiance probably wasn't the one for her after all. She lives with two mutual friends of the fiance, one an always endearing Kevin Smith, and a third has come from LA for the funeral and stays for awhile afterwards. It ends up that perfect fiance had an affair and a whole lot of secret money. This, of course, confuses, angers, upsets, etc. Garner as she tries to figure out just who she was engaged to. She manages to find out who he is, who she is, and find a new love all in one go.

It's not particularly smart. It's not mind blowing. As soon as you see the guy she ends up with on screen, you know she ends up with him. You can figure out the ends of most of the other storylines long before the end of the movie. But, nonetheless, it's charming, it's engaging, it's entertaining. A good movie to watch on tv.