This movie has not made such a big impact in the cinemas when it showed, but I believe it deserved some commendation from an insignificant person like me. It’s actually a good movie. Not the best, but it gives a really simple, altogether feel-good feeling.

The movie starts with a funeral, where Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) mourns over her dead fiancé Grady, on the supposed date of their wedding. Her fiancé was killed in a fishing accident that was supposed to be his bachelor’s celebration days before the wedding. Grady’s friends Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), Dennis (Sam Jaeger), and Sam (Kevin Smith) also attended the funeral. As Gray struggles to move on, she wasn’t able to afford the house she is currently living in, and Sam and Dennis, feeling guilty of being responsible for Gray’s loss, decides to let her stay with them. Fritz also momentarily stays with them.

As Gray starts to adjust to her grief, she discovers that Grady has made an investment long ago that she hasn’t known anything of. She learns that the investment has grown into a huge sum of money. Wondering why her fiancé hasn’t said anything to her about it, Sam tells her that Grady must have wanted it a surprise during their wedding. Hopeful that this is true, another surprise came when Gray discovers that a certain amount of money gets deposited to an unknown account. Gray finally discovers from Fritz (with help from an unexpected phone call) all about Maureen (Juliette Lewis), a massage therapist that Grady became “close” with quite some time ago. Even more shocking, Gray discovers that Maureen has a kid, and albeit Fritz lied that he was about 8 years old (an attempt to throw off the suspicion that the kid was born during the time that Gray and Grady were together), Gray accidentally meets Maureen herself, together with a very twistedly cute toddler Mattie (Joshua Friesen). Maureen was quite naive and didn’t suspect that Gray was Grady’s soon-to-be wife, and that she [Maureen] was the “other woman”, but when she finally knew the truth she gracefully acknowledged the fact and tried to be friends with Gray. Realizing that there is no point in getting angry or grief-stricken anymore about the secrets that Grady has kept from her, Gray finally makes a final move on, and begins to reach out to all her friends who also have some things that they need to share with her - that Grady isn’t what she thinks him to be. She also tries to help Maureen claim Grady’s rightful inheritance for little Mattie, from Grady’s unsuspecting mother. Eventually, Gray finds love once more in the most unusual way.

The story has it’s cute twists and turns, and I find myself gasping at all the unfortunate things Gray had experienced. I may be biased to Jennifer Garner, but she certainly could put on many emotions in such a pretty face - I liked her a lot, she portrayed the 5 stages of grief so gracefully, it made me want to experience them too. While watching this movie, I find myself trying to think what life would be like as Gray, where when everything just seems to be falling apart, you find that there are more things coming your way that is much worse, only to slowly discover that when you open your eyes to the things that are happening around you, life still could hold so much more in store for you. That sometimes, losing someone makes you find that person more. I admit that this is not a movie to watch when you’re half asleep, since some scenes can be dragging. Overall it’s the type of movie that isn’t too damn good, but it’s the type that would make you see life a little bit more differently, without the complications of heavy, emotional lines. It’s quiet, simple, yet memorable.