Another rom-com done in the tradition of Love Actually and He's Just Not into You. (From the producers of Pretty Woman - what could go wrong?!) The prescribed formula is to get as many big-name stars as you can, put in as many storylines as possible, make sure each character is related to another character, at the end of the movie, tie all loose ends in one feel-good knot.In this movie, we've got Ashton Kutcher playing lovestruck Reed, who's the owner of a flower shop. He proposes to career girl Morley (Jessica Alba) who just woke up and accepts.
Meanwhile, Reed's best friend Julia, played by Jennifer Garner, is planning to pay her recently-divorced doctor-boyfriend a surprise visit in San Francisco. Little does she know that he's still (happily) married with two kids. Reed discovers this fact when Dr. Copeland (Patrick Dempsey) comes into the shop to buy flowers for his wife and his "friend". Meanwhile, Julia's friend Kara (Jessica Biel) is busy planning her annual anti-Valentine's Day party at an Indian restaurant. She's also the publicist for Sean Jackson (Eric Dane), 
so she spends the day with his agent Paula (Queen Latifah), setting up a media conference for Sean, where he announced that he's actually gay.
Back to Reed, he goes to the school where Julia works to warn her about Dr. Copeland, but she's too busy with the kids. Reed goes back home to leave a special package for Morley, only to find her there packing her things. Not good. He rushes to the airport to stop Julia from flying, only to be berated for trying to spoil things for her. Julia goes to the hospital and find out the hard truth for herself. She then goes to the restaurant where Dr. Copeland and his wife Pamela is having Valentine's dinner and calls him out. She flies back to L.A., starts flirting with the depressed Reed, and they kiss on the bridge.
Wait, rewind. Julia flies back to L.A., then attend's Kara's party to blow off some steam. There, more of their girlfriends show up to report on how they were cheated by their boyfriends, etc. etc. Sport reporter Kelvin (Jamie Foxx), who covered the earlier press conference, shows up at the party as her date and wows the crowd with his singing prowess and his piano skills. Later, Kara goes to the TV station to return the favour.
More sideshows. Businessman Holden (Bradley Cooper) and Army Captain Kate (Julia Roberts) were on a plane to LA. They talk a lot, but neither tells the other about their love life. Turns out Holden is the lover of Sean, while Kate is the mom of Edison, who has a crush on his teacher Julia, who suggests he give his Valentine gift to his classmate. Meanwhile, Edison's babysitter Grace (Emma Roberts) was planning to have s3x with her boyfriend Alex (Carter Jenkins) for the first time. While Alex was in Grace's room making "preparations", her Mom walks in, so that's the end of it.Another one for you. Edison's grandfather Edgar (Hector Elizondo) discovers that his wife Estelle (Shirley MacLaine) had an affair long, long time ago. He huffs and puffs off to a film screening at the local cemetery. Estelle stumbles through the audience calling for him (in the middle of the movie). After the initial boos and hisses, the audience warms up to the couple's story, and gives them some warm applause while they kiss and make up. This inspires mailroom worker Jason to apologize to his one-night stand partner/colleague Liz, whom he discovered to be a part-time phone-sex operator, while working as an assistant to Paula.
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