Picking Nits
The panel challenges Harry’s age makeup and locations, the travel time, unshown careers, Emily breakup, post-sex behavior, dual phone lines, missing best-man speech, disconnected friend circles, food-bar hygiene, and compressed dating timelines.
In the discussion (11)
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- College-age Harry looks far too old.
- Sally appears to drop Harry and all his luggage in Washington Square Park, and the location complicates assumptions about his final run.
- Chicago to New York should take closer to twelve or thirteen hours than the stated eighteen.
- Neither Sally’s reporting nor Harry’s political consulting is ever shown or meaningfully specified.
- Harry’s breakup with the attractive pie-business owner Emily is unexplained.
- Harry’s panic and abrupt departure after sleeping with a close friend feel under-motivated without more drinking or bad sex.
- Marie and Jess inexplicably maintain separate landline numbers on opposite sides of one bed.
- The film omits what should have been a strong Billy Crystal best-man speech.
- Sally, Jess, Harry, and Marie unrealistically remain in isolated pairs despite overlapping journalism and New York Magazine circles.
- Picky, hygienic Sally uses shared hot-food-bar tongs across dishes.
- Joe says “I love you” after one month, while Harry brings an anthropologist to a wedding within three weeks of sleeping with Sally.