This one's for you if you've been waiting for a great American romancer like The  Notebook. What makes this one unusual is it's a 3-in-1 romance. It's complicated to explain but very easy to follow on film.  Dennis Quaid plays a best-selling author who wrote a book about an struggling author who finally  broke through after finding a long lost manuscript , claiming it as his own writing.  It becomes somewhat of a thriller when Jeremy Irons shows up as the real writer with his own  moving back story. 

Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana reportedly became a real-life couple for 5 minutes (a Hollywood eternity) after starring as husband and wife in The Words. Olivia Wilde has a brief role as a groupie who's out to seduce Dennis Quaid. Wow. She sure makes the most of it. She oozes sexuality. The third love story is the antithesis of the movie's title – it has maybe 6 spoken lines  from Iron's character as a young man (played by Ben Barnes) and his wooing of a young French woman just after World War 2 ends.

You don't have to bring the tissues to this one. But it will leave you with several  messages. Foremost: you and only you have to deal with the decisions  you make in life.

In a world of ribbon-wrapped  Hollywood endings, I had no idea where this one was going. Yes guys - it's a chick flick but so much better than what she usually drags you to see.

3 stars