How do you know when you are in love?

“How Do You Know” did a fantastic job explaining what is means and how it feels when you are in love.

The actors Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Owen Wilson did a great job portraying each character and new sides of the actors were revealed.

For Lisa (Reese Witherspoon), love is not worth her time.

Being a 31-year old softball player on the U.S. National Team is not easy, especially when you get cut.

It was nice to see Witherspoon in a new character.  She usually plays someone who is slightly off, not self-sufficient and stupid, yet  charming (such as her character, Elle Woods, in “Legally Blonde”). This was not the case in “How Do you Know,” as she flawlessly plays an intelligent woman who is self-sufficient and relatable.

After Lisa travels in a world of denial and loneliness, she realizes she needs something else other than softball in her life.

That something turns into a someone.  That someone is Matty (Owen Wilson), who is both a vapid professional baseball player and self-centered ladies’ man.  Naturally, Lisa is not his first lady, and she soon realizes this.

Wilson seems to work well in the weird character roles like in “Meet the Fockers.” In this film, he is funny and masochistic, which fits him well.

But like many romantic comedies, there is a twist— a love triangle.

There is another man—George (Paul Rudd).  George and Lisa were supposed to meet on a blind date. However, George has already met “someone” and decides to call Lisa and tell her.

Lisa finds George incredibly strange and hangs up on him, disregarding him completely until George changes his mind and pursues Lisa. When he does, he becomes more optimistic about his own life and learns to show genuine concern for Lisa, unlike Matty, who seems to use her.

George is especially engaging in this film because he is seemingly clueless as far as dating goes. Rudd always seems to mesh perfectly with the “I don’t have a clue what’s going on” characters, like in “I Love You, Man.”

The fun plot and entertaining cast make this movie exciting and enjoyable.  James L. Brooks, the 70-year old director of this romantic comedy, has been directing romantic films for many years.

All in all, this movie was a cute and funny romantic comedy with a captivating plotline, “How Do You Know” really tells us how you know when you are in love.