What I loved most: John Carroll Lynch

What I really hated: Lukewarm and damp storyline...a bit like the weather in Seattle!

Love Happens is a surprisingly touching movie which unfortunately AND ultimately can't decide whether to be a romantic comedy or a romantic tearjerker... Which is quite a shame because the story about dealing with loss and the healing process could have been a wonderful uplifting movie. The producer or writer should have taken a cue from that magnificent Pixar movie "UP"! It's like "Paris 36" all over again. There is just something curiously unsatisfying about it but yet I enjoyed waithing the little human theatrics that powers this movie. Once again despite two really fine and handsome leads in Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston, it is another under-rated actor, John Carroll Lynch that stole the show with his utterly heart rending performance of a man who can't moved on with his life after the loss of his son. His pains is so palpable that you will physically will ache with him. Yes, I did shed a tear or two...but luckily also a laugh or two.

A grief guru Burke (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself back in Seattle when his agent sets him up for his book tour and self-workshops which he has been reluctant to return to the place where his late wife and family was from. Although he helps people get through their grief of their lost ones, he himself has yet to face his own demons (he lost his wife in a car accident). But when he meets Elouise (Jennifer Aniston) a florist at the hotel where he gives his talks, he was strangely attracted to her and she in turn helps to confront his feelings and demons. If you expect a fluffy sweet rom-com, think you will be disappointed. There were brief romantic sweet moments but these fleet by so quick that you barely get soaked in the sweetness before your focus is switched to Burke trying to help his customers get over their grief esp Walter’s case, a guy who lost his kid son and not got over it by losing his wife and career. Aaron Eckhart hardly gets to play the lead but however, I feel that he has been let down by the plot of this movie. Jennifer’s role felt limited and restricted here, however the special appearance of Martin Sheen and the parrot brought some relief and much needed comical bits. Overall, a nice experience but I did not leave feeling all fuzzy inside.