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Management (2008) - ★★☆☆☆

The only thing I'd ever seen Jennifer Aniston in before this movie was an Aveeno commercial. I'm really more of a Nivea or St. Ive's person, and maybe Burt's Bees on a special occasion, but right now I do have a bottle of Aveeno Positively Radiant Sheer Daily Moisturizer Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 30 which I put on my face every day and every night. It works okay, I think, and it has a little shimmer in it which I think is sort of fun. 

It's more fun than this movie, at least, which I really think does not have to exist. In my opinion, rom-coms only have value when they are holiday themed, and this movie was not holiday themed, so I did not enjoy it. 

Interestingly, Steve Zahn, a man I have never heard of and Jennifer's costar in this movie, is in two other movies I also take issue with—War for the Planet of the Apes (another Woody movie, which I am avoiding watching because I am afraid of the monkeys) and Stuart Little, a movie about which I have oft documented my complicated feelings toward, which can be boiled down to: "that cat should not speak."

Woody's only in this movie briefly, and it's not a particularly great role. Oh well! 

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