This story is about Johnny. Matt Bush is Johnny Rizzo, a 24-yr-old New Yorker living and working in radio in the San Francisco Bay area. He has a 2AM to 6AM sports talk show, which he loves and is good at, but he also has a 24-yr-old fiancée who wants him to get a job earning more money so they can get married, live comfortably, have kids, the whole package.
Her dad back in New York is paying the rent on their apartment. He sets up a job interview for Johnny, it would be working as a supervisor in a company that makes boxes and other containers, something very boring compared to what he loves about his radio talk show. But it also pays very well. So Johnny flies to NYC for the weekend and the Monday interview.
Edward Burns, who wrote and directed, is Johnny's Uncle Terry, a relatively dirty middle-aged man who doesn't believe in marriage, and also has no problem romancing a variety of married ladies. He tries to set Johnny up for the weekend, for a "last fling", but really to get him out of his marriage plans.
In comes Kerry Bishé as Brooke, former star tennis player in college. She seems interested in Johnny, but he is a "nice guy" and is faithful to his fiancée. However something happens, an intercepted phone call, that gets her to worry.
So, what does Johnny do? That is what the movie is about, and other than Uncle Terry being very annoying most of the time, it is a very enjoyable movie.
SPOILERS: In the end Johnny does not have the interview, goes back to California determined to keep his low-paying job as a radio talk show host. He and his fiancée have a final discussion, they agree to go their separate ways, which in the end is a good decision for Johnny who would not have been happy giving up what he liked most just to make more money. The movie ends with Brooke as a call-in to his show, she is taking a road trip back to California, in fact she is calling from Napa, and will be a guest on his show to talk college tennis. But they may be more, down the road.
Her dad back in New York is paying the rent on their apartment. He sets up a job interview for Johnny, it would be working as a supervisor in a company that makes boxes and other containers, something very boring compared to what he loves about his radio talk show. But it also pays very well. So Johnny flies to NYC for the weekend and the Monday interview.
Edward Burns, who wrote and directed, is Johnny's Uncle Terry, a relatively dirty middle-aged man who doesn't believe in marriage, and also has no problem romancing a variety of married ladies. He tries to set Johnny up for the weekend, for a "last fling", but really to get him out of his marriage plans.
In comes Kerry Bishé as Brooke, former star tennis player in college. She seems interested in Johnny, but he is a "nice guy" and is faithful to his fiancée. However something happens, an intercepted phone call, that gets her to worry.
So, what does Johnny do? That is what the movie is about, and other than Uncle Terry being very annoying most of the time, it is a very enjoyable movie.
SPOILERS: In the end Johnny does not have the interview, goes back to California determined to keep his low-paying job as a radio talk show host. He and his fiancée have a final discussion, they agree to go their separate ways, which in the end is a good decision for Johnny who would not have been happy giving up what he liked most just to make more money. The movie ends with Brooke as a call-in to his show, she is taking a road trip back to California, in fact she is calling from Napa, and will be a guest on his show to talk college tennis. But they may be more, down the road.