Enough Said doesn't have enough to say, and that's fine because it's so pleasant, nice, sweet, and cute. There's some light subtext about not substituting other people's relationships for our own, but mostly the movie is about pairing together two charming lead actors in a romantic comedy, and just enjoying their chemistry. Julia Louis-Drefyus and James Gandolfini are completely endearing as a couple with playful banter, funny jokes, and mutual hesitations about trying to love someone who was deemed unlovable by somebody else. Even at the movie's heaviest and most awkward moments, writer-director Nicole Holofcener's light touch always keeps us smiling. Eva (Louis-Dreyfus) is a divorcee who goes to a party with her friends/bickering married couple Sarah (Toni Collette) and Will (Ben Falcone). At the party, Eva meets and befriends Marianne (Catherine Keener), a poet. Eva also meets fellow divorcee Albert (Gandolfini), a guy with a sweet disposition and a wry sense of humor. When Albert asks for Eva's number, the two start going out and really hit it off. However, Eva soon discovers that Albert is Marianne's ex-husband, and begins to see her new boyfriend through the negative lens of his ex-wife. The story takes a while to even get to the reveal that Marianne and Albert were married, and the film is the better for it. We get a chance to see how well Eva and Albert go together. She's a bit uptight but not in a grating, neurotic way, nor is she desperate. She is, for all intents and ...
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