★★★½ Definitely, Maybe

[Gino: 3.5]

Gino says: 'This movie is about an about-to-be divorced dad, explaining to his precocious daughter, the intricacies of how he came to have a child (her) with her mom. In the course of this, he reveals relationships with three women, and she tries to guess which is her mom.

OK. Nothing special, but if you are in the mood for a semi-romantic semi-comedy, you could do a lot worse than this (it has a 72% tomato rating). What I admired about it was that they had to fine-tune how likable the three women are in order to manipulate your feelings as to how things turn out, while not being SO obvious about it that there'd be no suspense left.

In retrospect I note that they picked a blonde, a brunette, and a "red head" for the three women, because studios assume that we would not be able to distinguish between three women without this helping hand. '

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