| Cast |
Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, Kathryn Hahn |
| Director |
James L. Brooks |
| Screenplay | James L. Brooks |
| Music | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Janusz Kaminski |
| Editing | Richard Marks, Tracey Wadmore-Smith |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2010 |
| Produced by | Columbia Pictures Corporation, Gracie Films, Road Rebel |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Language | Mild to moderate, fairly infrequent in comedic context |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Mild sex references ans sexual innuendos, brief implied sex with suggestive sounds |
| Violence | Mild verbal comic violence, infrequent |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | Some religious profanities, mild |
| Drug abuse | Brief alcohol consumption and inebriation |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Kgomotso Moncho  How do you know? You just dont | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople Komedie met een waarheid | 10 | |
| Cape Times Todd McCarthy Not in the know | 5 |  |
| The Citizen Annette Bayne | 11 |  |
| Box Office Mark Keizer The four quadrant casting will bring in young women and a few guys, none of whom will be recommending this dispiriting lump of Christmas romcom coal. | 5 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 10 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli The problem with the film has little to do with the central triangle, which is engaging enough in a formula-driven way, but with the myriad uninteresting subplots that dot the cinematic landscape and have the unfortunate effect of padding the proceedings to the point of unwieldiness. | 13 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs The sound of seat shuffling and exasperated sighs from other viewers usually only means one thing. Not horrible but just slow and failing to do anything new with well-trod material. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 38 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 136 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer How Do You Know boasts a quartet of likeable leads -- and they deserve better than this glib, overlong misfire from writer/director James L. Brooks. | 6 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1696 Netizens Not as bad as they're saying. | 11 | |
Average .. 45% | 9 | |