He (Ashton Kutcher) is a diaper salesman. She (Amanda Peet) is a wanna-be actress, when the two meet, and we follow what will become the ups and downs of a friendship, based on a $50 bet. She bets that in seven years, his perfect plan of being rich with a beautiful wife and baby, won’t pan out. And so we go along for a ninety minute ride of what could be the perfect pals occasionally distorted by sex/love (or is it? Does it?) While the chemistry isn’t Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, the two are likable enough to share romantic screen time. And, unlike the usual boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back, sappy-sweet scripts, this boy has to work for this girl and vice versa. It’s a fun twist on what one might expect, with a feeling of “Serendipity” meets “You’ve Got Mail”. Kutcher, fresh off of “Guess Who?” with Bernie Mac, proves he’s fastly becoming an A list star.
