Love Happens

DVD review from The Movie Snob

Love Happens (D). This is what happens when you rely on The Borg Queen's Netflix subscription, people! I like Jennifer Aniston (Management) as much as the rest of America, but dang she has made some bad movies. This recent bomb stars Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking) as self-help guru Burke Ryan, whose specialty is grief counseling. His own wife died in a car crash three years earlier, and now he is on the motivational-speaking circuit touting his book "A-OK." But Ryan is plainly not okay as he blows into Seattle (where his wife died) for one of his gigs. He meets Eloise (Aniston), a local flower-shop owner fresh from a break-up, and tentatively goes after her. The movie is all over the place tonally -- the tentative romance gets no more screen time than Ryan's grief-therapy encounters with a seminar-goer named Walter, and on top of that Ryan has to deal some with his deceased wife's father (Martin Sheen, Apocalypse Now). Painful stuff.