Directed: David Schwimmer
Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Dylan Moran, Hank Azaria, Ameet Chana
A guy with commitment issues leaves his pregnant fiance on their wedding day, and then tries to win her back for the past five years. He thinks he has figured out a way to do it by running a marathon.
You aren’t sure why at first someone that looks like Thandie Newton would fall for someone that looks like Simon Pegg. She sells it though, even though there isn’t much for her to do with her character, Libby. She isn’t given much to do besides look moony at her current boyfriend and her son, and frustrated with her ex-boyfriend/fiance when he does his usual adolescent thing. Besides making faces, she isn’t much of a character. She is more of something for Dennis to react to and aspire to be with. She does have an awesome bakery shop called Libby’s Nice Buns (or something like that).
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