What's your number?

"What's your number?" (2011) is another romantic comedy about a girl re-visiting her old relationships and/or sexual encounters. The movie stars Anna Faris ("Ally Darling" yes in typical Hollywood rom-com style even her name is cute) and Chris Evans (starving hotness musician "Colin"). Ally decides to re-visit her past sexual encounters after reading an article about the famous "number" of men a woman has been with. According to the article that is supposedly based on research by a Harvard professor, a woman's number, on average, is 10 point something. Also, the research found that the closer a woman's number gets to 20 the less likely she will be able to get married. Of course Ally immediately counts and finds out that her number is 19. She decides that she has only one more chance to get married and that she is not going to waste on not just anybody. However, she gets drunk and wastes her number 20 by having sex with her icky former boss. Because she wasted her last chance, she then decides to re-visit all of her past sexual encounters and/or relationships. That way her number won't go up to 21. That's when her front-door neighbor, Colin, begins to help her because he is good about "digging up people's dirt." Colin helps Ally find all of her past flames and in the process they both learn (which turns out to be the whole point of the movie anyway) why her past relationships haven't worked: Ally failed to remain true to herself in all of them, to the point where she dated an English man and faked an English accent with him the whole time. In every relationship she would leave her own true self aside and would become what she thought they wanted her to be. At the same time, this provides some great humor to the plot. The lesson of the whole movie (which thankfully isn't just about her finding her true love like a lot of Hollywood's rom-coms) is that in order to find true love or for someone to really love you, one must remain true to oneself. In other words, "being in love means being yourself." The person who truly loves you must love you for exactly what you are no more and no less. Which is also a lesson in self-esteem. In the end, Ally finds love with the person who has gotten to know her and loves her for exactly her authentic self. No I won't tell you who it is you have to watch it for yourself, but it is definitely very predictable. Why is it there are so many authentic and beautiful love stories, but a lot of the Hollywood rom-coms getting made are so predictable??? The only thing that differentiates this movie from any of the other rom-coms is the fact that there is a very valuable lesson: be authentic.

"I think too much sun makes people stupid" - Ally Darling

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