ANY QUESTIONS FOR BEN?

Meet Ben. He’s smart, good looking, successful and a complete commitment-phobe. He hasn’t kept an apartment, job or girlfriend for longer than a year - In fact, six months is pushing it. Just after his 27th birthday, Ben (Josh Lawson, ‘The Librarians’) gets a hard dose of reality; his life is shallow and meaningless. All of this comes to light thanks to some school kids at a career night when Alex (Rachael Taylor, ‘Red Dog’), an old university classmate of Ben’s who's now a UN human rights lawyer based in Yemen, steals the show, verses Ben’s job as a brand redeveloper. Any questions? No? That’s the point.

Press for this film will tell you that Ben spends the next year of his life “soul searching” when in actual fact he does the opposite. He spends the next year of his life doing exactly the same thing as always, the only difference is he complains about his life a lot more and does absolutely nothing to change it. That is, of course, until the last minute reprieve that comes out of nowhere. Well, not quite nowhere, we are talking about a romantic comedy, but you know what I mean. Ben’s character, while very charming and easy on the eyes, is also inauthentic and callow. Who’s going to care about a guy like that? The audience almost pity him, not empathise with him, as he struggles to realise that what he wants and needs in life is actually right in front of him.