A director hired for tone rather than authorship
Robert Luketic came to the film with a run of studio comedies behind him, and the job was calibration rather than signature.
Section 01
One film, start to finish
Director, writers, score, release.
Three pieces
In this section
A score written to keep a comedy moving
Aaron Zigman's score does structural work — it tells the audience which scenes are the turn — and it is easy to miss for exactly that reason.
An R rating changed how it could be sold
The MPAA rating shifted the marketing away from the broadest possible audience, which for this genre is a real cost.
Credits
Who made it, and in what capacity
| Director | Robert Luketic |
| Screenplay | Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith |
| Original score | Aaron Zigman |
| Distributor | Columbia Pictures |
| Certificate | R (MPAA), 2009 |
| Runtime | 96 minutes |
| North American release | 24 July 2009 |