Nelson Moss is a workaholic advertising executive. At the San Francisco DMV, he meets Sara Deever, an odd woman who latches on to him. She’s convinced that he has a problem and she can solve it. As it turns out, she does this on a regular basis — picks a guy and has him live with her for one month (and one month only), then sends him away cured of whatever ails him. Nelson is suspicious and gives her a definite no. But then he loses his job and his girlfriend and so decides to give Sara a day. Of course, the day turns into a month, and he falls in love with her. Turns out she falls for him too, but there’s a problem. She’s dying of cancer. He finds out, but wants to marry her anyway. She puts him off, but he returns, more committed than ever. In the end though, she forces him to walk away, assuring him that he will always have his memories of the month they spent together.

This movie had no purpose and the characters had no reason to be liked. Nelson was a obsessive executive who really did need to learn to live, but sleeping with some crazy chick who picks a new guy every month as her solution to dying from cancer isn’t the way to learn. Sara’s character was repulsive, from her frenetic craziness at the beginning of the movie to her confidence that she could help any man no matter his problem to her deer-in-the-headlights stupor at the end. I’ve liked Theron in other movies, but she was awful in this one. The gay friends that live downstairs didn’t add a thing, nor did several sub-plots that only kept the viewer from getting to know the main characters enough to like them. If there are really people who live like any of these people, I don’t want to know them.