Nina: I want you to be with me, I want you to marry me, I want you to love me the way that I love you.
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Rodney Fraser: Have you noticed that you're the only practicing heterosexual at your Thanksgiving dinner?
Nina Borowski: I haven't practiced for a while.
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Sidney: If I wasn't happily married and you weren't my wife's stepsister I'd have an affair with you in a second.
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Nina: You don't tell a woman that you love her and then two days later bring Romeo over to sleep with him.
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Nina: Don't open the door for any gas men. Unless you think either one of us would be interested.
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George Hanson: I'm simple, that's why I teach first grade.
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Nina: I like guys a lot, but I'm not going to waste my time with some guy that doesn't see things the way I do... I mean do you really need this guy?
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George Hanson: Do you ever just want to touch her nose? I mean its like a Tulip.
Nina: Don't start that with her.
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Rodney Fraser: One shouldn't be too hard on oneself when the object of one's affection returns the favor with rather less enthusiasm than one might have hoped.
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Nina: Head up young person.
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Constance: Do you love him?
Nina: Yeah, whatever that means.
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Nina: I want to look at you and not feel so hurt by you.
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Sidney: Betty, we should go.
Constance: Betty was your other wife. I'm Constance.
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Constance: I enjoy gay people, but I just have a slight problem with my pregnant sister being in love with one of them.
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Rodney: Don't fix your life so that you're left alone right as you come to the middle of it.
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Nina: Freud didn't know DICK about women.
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Dr. Robert Joley: We're too old to settle for a twin-bedded friendship.
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Nina: You have to pick one person and make it work.
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Sidney: I swear, I'm hotter than a goat in China.
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Description
Jennifer Aniston stars in this sly romantic comedy as Nina, a young woman who falls in love with her new roommate, George, (Paul Rudd) even though he's gay and loves her purely as a friend. When Nina becomes pregnant, she realizes she'd rather raise her c
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In this ultra-hip, multilayered comedy, triangles and emotional imbroglios take on a new meaning. Well, at least they try. Jennifer Aniston plays a straight woman who falls in love with a gay man (Paul Rudd). She invites him to move in with her just hours after they meet. As their friendship progresses, she learns she is pregnant, and wants Rudd to act as daddy to her newborn, much to the consternation of her overbearing boyfriend (John Pankow). The film takes itself too seriously, although there is some genuine emotion buried in Wendy Wasserstein's clunky script. It is not that the relationships are unbelievable; it is that the story lurches forward from one stilted setup to another. And unfortunately, characters are motivated by unknown forces to take on major life changes without explanation. More fortunate are two very likable performances by Rudd, who wisely plays this without cute, homosexual tics, and a most perky and appealing Aniston. Supporting actor Nigel Hawthorne walks away with the film as a gay drama critic who imparts a few important life lessons as he learns one of his own. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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