It Had to Be You

Former NYC policeman and aspiring author Charlie Hudson (Michael Vartan) is about to marry into a wealthy family and is sent to a hotel near Central Park to spend the weekend without his bride-to-be finalizing plans for the big-deal wedding. He meets in the hotel elevator perky, trivia-obsessed Anna ...more

Michael Vartan does his best Hugh Grant, and Natasha Henstridge even has her hair in a Julia Roberts pixie, but the respective star power is a few watts dimmer than had the source inspirations been cast. The meet-cute narrative is strictly by the numbers, and the romantic elements of this romantic comedy outweigh the comedic moments by five to one, but there are worse ways to spend an evening. The successful scenes are donated by a colorful cast of good comic secondary characters, including ...more