Kate (Andie MacDowell  Groundhog Day) is a lonely respectable forty year old head mistress at a boarding school who gets together every week with her friends to tell horrible stories about their week and discover who is the saddest. Then Kate meets Jed an ex-pupil whom she begins to have an affair with. Soon the affair begins to turn into a relationship and she is no longer sad. What will happen when her friends decide to prove he is bad for her and decide to keep her from making a mistake? Or is she the one making the mistake.
    I was rather taken by the three female leads in the beginning because they all have such unique characteristics. Kate is the happy go lucky but stone cold character who is often beaten down by her friends. Janine (Imelda Stanton) is the rough and tough police sergeant who is too manly to get a man, and Molly (Anna Chancellor) is the cold hot alluring man eater who can't be in a relationship long enough to feel anything. The movie kept me interested as the girls tell their different horrible dating stories and decide which one is the saddest. Andie MacDowell is likable in every role she's in and has a beautiful smile and pull of the lead role very well. I was interested to see what would happen to her character throughout the entire movie and I enjoyed the different twists and turns her character experiences. The character Janine is humorous because she's often very comedic when she's working as the police officer. At one point she scolds one of her officers to the break of tears and begins begging her for forgiveness which made me laugh. Molly is a cold heartless and despicable character but she sure is yummy looking. She's probably the main villain in the story but I didn't think much for her. The movie is enjoyable and director John McKay gives a nice light mood setting for the story which I found very entertaining.

I wasn't too fond of the ending which consisted of a death of a main character which completely threw off a story who wasn't interesting to begin with. Jed, her romance isn't charismatic nor is he charming or likeable and is simply a one-dimensional character who we never get to know much of, so we never care when something happens to him. I felt writer John McKay didn't show enough of his character to let the audience like him and simply was resorted to becoming a bad plot device. The story takes a turn for the sappy and emotional worthy of the "Lifetime" network when, I repeat, one of the characters die and we get to see Kate getting through it emotionally which aren't very dramatic scenes. A lot of the time I felt this was yet another plot device used to bring the tears from the audience. The ending of the film becomes not only corny and hokey but extremely far-fetched. If my friends ever did this to me like they did to her, I would not only never speak to them again but I would banish them from my life, yet they make up. Why? Because writer McKay takes the easy way out and goes for the safe happy ending. I would have liked to see him take a risk and go for the bittersweet ending. Also, Kate has a baby which was rather confusing and felt like another cheesy plot device used to bring upon sympathy for these purely unlikable characters. The character Molly, though hot, is probably the most despicable character I've seen in a movie in years and how she's involved in the ending really made me angry. The last ten minutes is devised of a good old fashion women moment where the girls gather to talk about who's the happiest and their new relationships which happen to pop up near the last five minutes. Aw, ain't that sweet? Nah.

A decent way to kill two hours but tends to lag in the last segment of the movie with a hokey, cheesy, and safe happy ending that left me groaning in my seat. Not worthy of the theatres but worthy for the "Lifetime" crowd.