Something Borrowed is unfortunately a movie on borrowed time. In this movie there are friendships that are tested when secrets come out when Rachel falls for Dex which is her best friends fiance. It's directed by Luke Greenfield who before this directed movies such as The Animal and The Girl Next Door. This is based of the book written by Emily Giffin while the screenplay for the movie was written by Jennie Snyder.
Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a lawyer and when she was in law school she fell for one of her fellow classmates, Dex (Colin Egglesfield), who comes from an affluent family, but during their time at school she was too shy to do anything about it. When Dex meets her best friend Darcy (Kate Hudson), who sometimes treats her horribly, with the permission of Rachel, Darcy makes a move on Dex and gets him. Eventually, they get engaged and Darcy asks Rachel to be her Maid of Honor. Darcy throws her a birthday party and Dex is there, unfortunately she still has feelings towards him but can't say anything to him about it. When they finally get a moment alone after the birthday party she tells him that she had a thing for him in college which surprised him, then after drinking a little bit too much they spend the night together. Not knowing what to do after what happened they do their best to try and just forget what happend. Ethan (John Krasinski), Rachel's close friend, tells her that she needs to get off her but and make a decision because if she doesn't she will spend the rest of her life regretting the decision she never made.
There were parts of this movie that I really enjoyed but at the same time there were parts of this movie that I could really live without. The scene above is one scene that was my favorite however, I feel that the chemistry between John and Ginnifer was just great. There arguments were filled with so much passion it made you want them to get together but during the whole movie she just didn't seem like she wanted him.
On the other hand the chemistry between Colin and Ginnifer was lacking immensely and it made the movie drag along for me. The whole time they were together I just keep thinking why the heck they don't work well together! I thought that Colin and Kate had much better chemistry so when those to were paired together the movie wasn't all that bad.
As far as what I would give this movie, its not one of my favorites... C-. This is a movie made from a two series book and the second book never made it to film causing the whole story not being able to be told which left this incomplete for me and just not one of my favorite movies. If you want to know how it ends then I suggest you check it out.
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