SnoopyStyle Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) is suffering from writer's block and hounded by thugs looking to collect on gambling debts. He needs $100k in 30 days. He needs to finish his book before Wirschafter (Rob Reiner) is willing to pay him the money. He hires stenographer Emma Dinsmore (Kate Hudson) to help finish his book about a love triangle.This is a horribly unfunny movie from director Rob Reiner. Luke Wilson is not charming here and yet the movie expects him to be boyishly charming. He is pretty whiny. Kate Hudson is annoying rather than be her winning self. Reiner has done something with high difficulty. He has taken two charming rom-com actors and made a joyless romance. The combative nature of their relationship should be romantic heat but their arguments annoyed the heck out of me. The worst is the book within the movie. I couldn't care less about his poorly written story.

sleet_48 Slow start. Then very entertaining and cute.What I would have changed: After the boat left, he realized the Flamingo Dancers would come for him, so he got on a train out of town. He realized he loved Anne, and because the seasons changed, he knew Anne and the Shaw family would return to St. Charles for the season. He gets on anther train to St. Charles and runs into The Flamingo Dancers. The Flamingo Dancers wanted their money. They taught him the meaning of "Paying through the nose." Anne, seeing him in town, all bruised up and still caring about him, tries to help him. Then he would learn that Anne has money. She only took the job because she was on summer break from college and decided to stay to spite her rich parents. When she found out about her love needing the money, she seeks out her family whom she had become estranged. They had only sent her to school to find a husband. Since she found love, they help. He asks her about how she could forgive him for the french chick. She explains that after spending a year working for them, she saw how miserable Shaw made the family and how important it is to marry for love, and not money, she remembered him. When she learned that he faced The Flamingo Dancers for a glimmer of a chance to win her love back, she decided she could begin to forgive him. Then he can keep those last lines in his book.PS, how is there a train to an island?

Kate_Pafford Despite what I've read review wise on this site, I got this movie because I enjoy Kate and Luke and thought that together they may make a great team. An unconventional love story that makes sense, the move from reality to fiction is smooth and sweet. Luke's funny, crazy, a bit charming and sweet as Alex, a writer who has to write his next book in 30 days or be killed by Loan Sharks. He hires Emma (Kate Hudson) a sweet, opinionated and odd character, so he can narrate and she can type. Things get strange from there as Alex narrates and envisions them as the characters, but it's charming none the less. I giggled and enjoyed the scenes and I thought it was a very cute film that people have read to much into. Meant to be a sweet and enjoyable film, it's not meant to be the next Gone With the Wind. Charming and cute none the less with Rob Reiner behind the camera. Worth 7 stars for it's cute effort.

soundwall Just want to voice my support for this movie. It doesn't deserve such a low score as it is.This is much better than I expected. As a matter of fact, some part of me was moved by it. Alex & Emma isn't a great movie, and it's not a masterpiece either, but it's a well produced film nevertheless. Both Luke(who excels at this kind of role) and Kate delivered it well above just being competent. A simple yet warm plot that works, plus a decent directing.Sometimes we need to be reminded of the simple touch and warmth between us, just to get us going in the walk of life.