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5/12/2006

Rumor Has It... (2005)

It's got an extremely clever premise: woman (Jennifer Aniston) finds out that grandmother/mother were the real-life mother/daughter duo on whom characters in "The Graduate" were based. You'd think they could've had a lot more fun with it. Instead, it's just lifeless and a little creepy.

Basically, in the space of a few hours, Aniston goes from believing that Beau (a likable Kevin Costner) could be her father to sleeping with him, which kind of wrecks her engagement -- but only temporarily since, you know, her fiancé's got that movie-level patience.

I just didn't get it. And I wasn't really bothering to try.

D+

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