
Friendship has its benefits
Plot outline
Cast
- Natalie Portman
- Ashton Kutcher
- Kevin Kline
- Cary Elwes
- Greta Gerwig
- Lake Bell
- Olivia Thirlby
- Ludacris
- Jake Johnson
- Mindy Kaling
- Talia Balsam
- Ophelia Lovibond
- Guy Branum
- Ben Lawson
- Jennifer Irwin
- Adhir Kalyan
- Brian H. Dierker
- Abby Elliott
- Vedette Lim
- Gary David Goldberg
- Armen Weitzman
- Shaun Russell
- Nealla Gordon
- Seth Morris
- Nasim Pedrad
- Elizabeth Meriwether
- Mollee Gray
- Derek Ferguson
- Matthew Moy
- Tyne Stecklein
- Kym Connor
- Renna Bartlett
- Jennifer Hamilton
- Krystal Ellsworth
- Kim Marko Germar
- Megan Honore
- Nick Lanzisera
- Moira 'Anjolie' Marfori
- Dalphe Morantus
- Katrina Norman
- Heather Phillips
- Britt Stewart
- Paula Van Oppen
- William T. Loftis
- Kc Monnie
- Jason Williams
- Hugo
- Jay Barclay
- Tom Tangen
- Tim Matheson
- Ben Lautman
- Joshua Andreacola
- Sam Greenberg
- Rachel McDermott
- Robert Trapp
- Rachael Markarian
- Kherington Payne
- Dylan Doornbos Hayes
- Stefanie Scott
- January Adams
- Philippe Badreau
- Joshua Robert Castaneda
- Thomas F. Evans
- Lydia Blanco Garza
- Lubella Gauna
- Leslie Gunning
- Morgan Lambert
- Paul LeClair
- Stephane Nicoli
- Ivan Reitman
- Jonathan Sanders
- Lucy Walsh
Plots
A guy and girl try to keep their relationship strictly physical, but it's not long before they learn that they want something more.
Occasionally in the 15 years since summer camp, Adam and Emma cross paths. When he discovers that an ex-girlfriend is living with his dad, he gets drunk, calls every woman in his cell phone contact list, and ends up passed out naked in her living room. By this time, she's a medical resident in L.A. and he's a gopher on a "Glee"-like TV series, hoping to be a writer. She guards her emotions (calling her father's funeral "a thing"), so after a quick shag in the moments she has before leaving for the hospital, she asks if he wants a no-strings-attached, sex-only relationship, without romance or complications. A prescription for fun or for disaster?
Adam (Ashton Kutcher) and Emma (Natalie Portman) met each other once at a school summer camp but never committed. Several years later and they meet again. Adam is now a writer and an assistant on a TV show and she's a doctor. When Adam discovers that his father Alvin (Kevin Kline), a washed-up actor, is having a relationship with his ex-girlfriend, he goes on an all-night bender. Waking up in Emma's house, he finds comfort in her and they have spontaneous sex too. They decide that they should restrict their relationship to this level as she isn't comfortable with dating. She decides to keep it a secret from her housemate's Patrice (Greta Gerwig) and Shira (Mindy Kaling). Typically, Adam feels left out by this demand and tries to develop the relationship into something more with the help of his friends Wallace (Ludacris) and Eli (Jake M. Johnson).
Handsome, charming Adam never forgot about Emma, whom he met at summer camp, and bumps into now he's a TV show assistant aspiring a script writing career and she a hospital intern. Utterly drunk after another depressing stunt form his terribly selfish father, twice-divorced Hollywood has been Alvin, Adam is carried to her med students apartment, waking up naked and taunted being oblivious, yet a good and apologetic sport. Emma admits being incapable of any relationship but he accepts to become sex mates without strings, which works a while, rendering her flirtatious best mate Sam jealous, while their other friends try to coach the non-couple into becoming one. Irresistible Adam does everything right, yet her fear of romance keeps spoiling the fun of his date plans.