Somehow we’re a family

 How many of you spend hours searching the Web for the perfect date-night movie, or have trouble finding what you want at Walmart? 

I’ve designed this column to prevent bickering about what’s the best movie for date night. This column will change every week while I review what I feel is the best date night movie for the two of you, group date nights and family date nights.

I will make sure to add a review for everyone’s benefit. One week I might review a classic romance date night movie, and the next week I might review my top action or horror date night movie. Whichever the case, I will make sure to try my best so that my readers have an idea for their next date night. Email me questions, requests or recommendations, so I can voice your thoughts.

Here is my date night movie for this week, a comedy/romance for ‘the two of you’ date nights.

“Life as we Know It” is a basic love story written backwards. Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Messer (Josh Duhamel) are put in a situation where they have to take care of Sophie, an orphaned girl, when their best friends, Sophie’s parents, die in an accident.

At the start of the movie you are introduced to the main characters, Holly and Messer. Allison and Peter set Holly and Messer up on a blind date, where after 10 minutes of their so called date, Messer receives a booty call, and Holly says forget it and their date is over. Holly is mortified and asks her best friend Allison to make sure she never has to see Messer again.

Well, as in life, you can never avoid your best friend’s husband’s best friend when it comes to family parties, especially when Allison and Peter find out they are going to be parents and name Holly and Messer as Sophie’s godparents. The real story begins when Allison and Peter both die in a accident when Sophie is 1 year old.

Holly and Messer are told that Sophie’s parents chose them to be guardians for Sophie in the unlikely event of the death of Allison and Peter. Holly and Messer are confused and very stressed to find that this baby is being given to them. Holly is a baker and Messer helps direct basketball games. While both are completely clueless about how to raise a child, they somehow have to make it work.

In time, Messer and Holly find ways to make both of their schedules work and learn how to raise Sophie. Holly and Messer run into complications, as any new parents do, especially ones who didn’t have nine months to prepare. Overall, I believe Holly and Messer do a great job raising Sophie.

“Life as we Know It” is a great movie for couples to watch and also a good date night movie for friends. It does have its touchy parts, but it also is full of laughs and romance. In this movie you see Holly and Messer as people who possibly hate each other slowly fall in love and become terrific parents for Sophie.

“You and me and Sophie. Somehow we’re a family,” Messer says.

• Chloe Marchant, date night columnist for Kaua‘i Times, is ready for your questions and recommendations for movie reviews at entertainment@kauaitimes.net