It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie is so bad that I made an IMDb account just to warn poor, romantic-comedy- seekers like myself. Do not watch this movie expecting anything fun, funny, or even remotely entertaining. The plot is so predictable my pet lizard wasn't even surprised by the conflicts or plot turns. The acting is stiff and muted, like one is watching cardboard cut outs of the actors slowly soak up rainwater and crumble in on themselves. The tortured jilted lover character talks like he has kidney stones causing him acute pain, but has recently taken and is already feeling the slowing and slurring effects of a very potent narcotic. There is no character development, and the references to 9/11 are tawdry, cheap ploys for emotion. This may well be the worst movie I've ever seen. I can never get that time back. I would have been better off spending my hour and change collecting roadkill to taxidermy. It certainly would have been more rewarding, and left me with less of a disgusted after taste. Long story short; skip this utter waste of time, space, and money.

A group of close friends from NYU have not seen much of each other since 9/11. A weekend wedding will have the group gathering in Athens, Georgia...but will things be the same; will the friends be the same? Sam(Desmond Harrington), the hopeless romantic and world traveler returns to find his former sweetheart Amy(Kathleen Robertson)married to a man less adventurous; more or less an outsider. Now the all-American girl finds her heart in a dilemma upon seeing Sam again. Friends Howard(Jon Abraham)and Billy(Will Estes)are not speaking since gal pal Victoria(Sunny Mabrey)came between them. Meanwhile a beer loving "Fudge"(Elden Henson)gets some surprise attention from the group's novelist played by the adorable Sara Rue. There is some humor found in this romantic drama; and NOT SINCE YOU is real easy in touching your emotions. Also in the cast: Barry Corbin, Christian Kane, Victoria Leigh and Liane Balaban.

A really great romantic independent with strong writing, great directing and really good performances. It's got a "Big Chill" style storyline with friends getting together after a few years for a big event (a marriage rather than a funeral). It takes place in Athens, Georgia and the location is great, perfect for a wedding but with lots of space for the characters to interact. The bride and groom barely appear in the film as it's not about the culmination of a romance but rather past friends coming together and dealing with their lives and romances since they were last all together. Will past lovers reunite, will former best friends continue to let a girl come between them, will a young man come to terms with his dark secret and rediscover life outside of the bottle? Hey, it's a movie so it's got lots of big emotions but it always feels grounded and real even during the moments of comedy. Proof that little can-do independents can outclass, and provide a much better film than the big studio Rom-Coms we're getting these days. A good story told with warmth, humor and above all...romance.

A creepy man who looks like a rapist comes home after a 3-year journey (to Europe, apparently to find himself), and is inexplicably horrified to find out that his ex-girlfriend from 3 years ago is married. He embarks upon a plan that involves sitting around and frowning, and giving snotty looks to her kindly new male-model looking husband (who is constantly going out of his way to be nice).The filmmakers did not understand some of the usual visual language of cinema with how they present this ex-girlfriend. For example, when we first see her, she is doing her make-up with her friends. She's in the middle, and she's the tallest. This makes her seem vain and imperious. Later, we see her combing her hair while talking to her husband, but not looking at him. This makes her seem cold and witchy. The actress is very beautiful but very cold looking, with very sculpted, unnatural features. She almost never smiles. Basically, she seems like the mean girl in the '80's movie, or one of those girls who was mean to Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding.They don't make her likable or inviting, is what I'm saying, so we can't relate to the creepy guy's fascination with her. Actually though, they do seem made for each other, because just as she is plastic and icy, he is sinister and ominous. Come to think of it, they are very like Heathcliff (not the cat) and Catherine from that Kate Bush song Wuthering Heights.Meanwhile, his other friends cope with their own earth-shattering, soul-destroying problems. One of them is a tiny, babbling man who does everything he can to irritate the crap out of everyone around him. He not only is a salesman trying to pitch ideas, but he never ever stops talking. He is stunned that a girl dumped him for a quieter friend of theirs. When he is not badgering rich people about investing in his simple ideas, he is picking fights in public, walking around with a shotgun, and splashing people in the pool.(What he acts like is that little dog from the old Warner Brothers Cartoon that always ran around the bigger dog, talking nonstop about what great pals they were.) Babble Guy's ex-girlfriend who dumped him for Quiet Guy just wants to get married. Quiet Guy apparently keeps putting it off or something. He may or may not be waiting for Babble Guy to stop holding a grudge, it's not too clear. There isn't any more to their characters than that, so they are easy to describe. She pressures him about getting married and complains about him, and he tries to fend off Babble Guy's random physical assaults. Babble guy is tiny but feisty, like a kitty-cat.A third friend is a man who looks just like a hobbit, or like Lars Ulrich. He is an alcoholic, but not one who does any of the problematic things that real alcoholics do. He doesn't stink, pick fights, vomit a lot, have health problems, annoy people, lose money, fail to show up when expected, wake up in strange places, be mean, cry a lot, get into accidents, or any of the other things alcoholics do that make them impossible to be around. All he really does is take naps on pool chairs or porch swings. So, he is a cute, cuddly alcoholic who might smell like Downy fabric softener. Luckily for him, a perfect, kindly, beautiful white girl decides that he is exactly the man she's been looking for, and she walks around their little town with him a lot. After he responds to her sexual overture with a tearful confession, all of his mental problems lift from his shoulders and drift away like a cloud on a summer's morning.This movie has a very nice musical score, and a pretty scene with some fireflies. I was glad that they didn't set that scene to the song "Fireflies", so kudos. That scene unfortunately ends in a zoom-in close-up of Rapist Guy's face, as he apparently realizes something creepy, and he gives a terrifying serial killer smile at the camera. They cut to another scene before he can break out into a maniacal laugh. (Oddly, when you find out what he figured out, it's just that he and the ex-girlfriend aren't right for each other.)If you want to see the tough guy who always beats the crap out of everybody on Leverage be a nice, sweet person, he plays the Ice Woman's new husband.