I will never eat free nuts from the bowl on the bar again, having seen "Along Came Polly. It's his job to know the risks of every situation, which is why his marriage seems like such a sure thing: His new bride Lisa Debra Messing is like a computer print-out of an ideal mate for life. But it doesn't work out that way in "Along Came Polly," a movie where a lot of things don't work out, including, alas, the movie itself. On the second day of their honeymoon in St. Barts, Lisa cheats on Reuben with a muscular scuba instructor Hank Azaria , and he returns to New York crushed and betrayed. When he meets Polly Jennifer Aniston , an old school chum, he doubts they can be happy together assessing the risks, he sees the two of them as totally incompatible , but to his amazement they are soon involved in a neurotic but not boring relationship. The problem is that their relationship, and indeed Reuben's entire array of friendships and business associations, are implausible not in a funny way but in a distracting way: We keep doubting that this person would be acting this way in this situation. What kind of a risk assessor is Reuben if he knows he has Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and nevertheless goes on a first date with Polly to dinner at a North African spice palace? Yes, his dinner gives the movie the opportunity to launch one of those extended sequences involving spectacular digestive, elimatory and regurgitative adventures, but we're aware it's a set-up.
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Contact us. Netflix Netflix. After his wife dumps him on their honeymoon, uptight Reuben reconnects with an irreverent childhood friend who teaches him to live life on the edge.
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The story follows Reuben Feffer Ben Stiller , a tightly wound New Yorker who finds his life falling apart, when he discovers his wife cheating on him with a scuba diver on their honeymoon. He then rebounds and finds himself falling in love with his former classmate Polly Prince Jennifer Aniston as she tries to loosen up his rigid ways, which brings him to question his life and some decisions, and that you can't analyze the safe choice in love all the time. Reuben Feffer Ben Stiller , a risk analyst for life insurance , is celebrating his honeymoon with his new wife, Lisa Kramer Debra Messing , on the island of St. Barts , but catches her having sex with Claude Hank Azaria , a French scuba instructor. Returning home to New York alone, he attempts to piece his life back together. Reuben goes to an art gallery with his friend, Sandy Lyle Philip Seymour Hoffman , where he runs into former junior high school classmate Polly Prince Jennifer Aniston.
Watch the trailer. Reuben Feffer thinks he's found the love of his life but on his honeymoon he discovers her cheating on him with a scuba instructor. Reuben travels back home to get his life on track. Reuben feels a connection straight away, and tries constantly to get her to like him. But it's not going to be easy for Reuben, especially when he spends his days calculating risks, and when someone unexpected turns up.
