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She was the luminous star of “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail” and “Sleepless in Seattle,” all of which are synonymous with the cozy genre.But after experiencing Ryan’s romantic-comedy directing debut, “What Happens Later,” one must ask: Did she ever watch any of them?
“It’s Leap Day!,” her character Willa proclaims after reuniting with ex-boyfriend Will after 25 years in an unspecified regional airport during a blizzard. “It’s a magical day, and things like this happen.”Similarly to 2010’s “Leap Year,” which also involved flights, storms, fate and tedium, “What Happens Later” uses Leap Day, aka February 29, as the mystical justification for why bizarre phenomena keep happening in the terminal.
“I worry about everything,” he admits with laughable vagueness. “I worry about what’s gonna happen. I worry about what’s not gonna happen.”And then there’s Willa, who lugs a rainstick around and is a massage therapist/wannabe self-help guru. “Are you on a trip or a journey?,” she asks Bill, clarifying that a trip is “trying to reach a destination” whereas a journey is aiming for “a goal.”
Ryan, who’s heyday was in her twenties and thirties, has said she wanted to make a romantic comedy about older people.with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin or “Something’s Gotta Give” with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, both directed Nancy Meyers. Even thewith Julia Roberts and George Clooney, has the slightest edge on this one. Unlike “What Happens Later,” they were fun.
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