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DVD review: Friends with Benefits

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If cuddling on the couch with some good red wine, chocolate and someone special is more your thing for Valentine's Day, then Friends with Benefits is the ideal movie to watch while you're about it.

Starring cute on-screen couple Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake, this is the story of love and sex in the time of social networking

Two hot (and recently single) young things, Dylan and Jamie, who meet - and then befriend each other - when she headhunts him for GQ magazine, decide that sex is a pretty essential part of life, but not neccesarily as part of a relationship.

They're cool enough to keeps things purely physical, without the emotional entanglements and attachments that love brings. And as for the Hollywood cliches of true love - they're not buying into it anymore.
Described by the New York Times as "a romantic comedy about romantic comedy", Friends with Benefits takes a swipe at mushy, formulaic tinseltown comedies. 

The ending is pretty obvious from the beginning, but it's the cast and not the plot that make Friends with Benefits great entertainment.
 

Timberlake and Kunis have marvelous chemistry and are really funny too, but Mila is the star of this production

She's perfect as the sassy, outspoken, young and tough NYC career gal - but with a vulnerable side that she tries to hide.

There are also great comic performances from Woody Harrelson as Dylan's horny gay colleague Tommy (who never stops trying to get into his pants), and Annie (Jenna Elfman from Dharma and Greg) as Dylan's older sister.

Other cool characters to look out for: Patricia Clarkson is great as Jamie's hip 40-something mother and Richard Jenkins is Dylan's wise and funny dad.

A suave and sexy comedy about love and sex and whether one can (or should) exist without the other.

RELEASE DATE: 30 January 2012
 
CAST: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman, Bryan Greenberg , Richard Jenkins, Woody Harrelson, Nolan Gould, Andy Samberg
 
DIRECTOR: Will Gluck
 
CLASSIFICATION: L N

Watch the trailer here

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Author info: Sasha Wyatt-Minter

Sasha is one of the editors of www.all4women.co.za and is also a work-from-home mom with a passion for writing, reading, good food and wine. She's obsessed with healthy eating and experimenting with alternative health therapies. Her best reward at the end of a busy day - a glass of wine and a good book!