This movie proves that we can never really know somebody. This film feels contrived and features performers who seem like they would know better. When Grey (Jennifer Garner) loses her fiance Grady just as they are about to get married, things get bad for our star pretty quick in Catch and Release.
Needing a place to live so she can get her life together (she would have lived in a home with Grady), Grey ends up moving in with her best friends Sam (Kevin Smith) and Dennis (Sam Jaeger). During this time of transition she starts talking to Grady's best pal Fritz (Timothy Olyphant) and soon realizes through a series of events that made Grady wasn't the man she thought he was. You can pretty much guess what happens in the rest of this movie and by process of elimination figure out how Grey's life goes.
Okay, if the pretentious names and "seen it before" plot haven't yet deterred your desire to see this movie, than Catch and Release is probably going to sit well with you. For me, there were too many movie moments and too many forced sounding conversations from a cast that seems like they should know better. This DVD has two commentary tracks.
One is with Director/Writer Susannah Grant and Kevin Smith, and the other is with Susannah Grant and Cinematographer John Lindley. Okay, I am 33 years old, which one do you think I listened to? Kevin Smith makes this commentary for probably the same reason he was hired to do this film.
He and Grant banter wittily back and forth about each scene, praising certain actor's performances and discussing what was going on on set the day a particular scene was shot. They discuss the script and basically a lot of this track features Smith asking Grant a lot of questions, to which she usually laughs before she responds. This movie proves that we can never really know somebody.
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