Love Happens
(Brandon Camp): Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler
Running time: 109 minutes. T(12A)
Rating: 2/5

Love happens? Really? Between who? Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart? How could such a thing happen in a romantic drama? This is earth-shattering news. If it is worth watching, it's to see that jawbone for a face, Eckhart, bury that lady-killer knowingness and tap into something just-below-the-surface sorrowful.

His self-help guru Burke is an expert at fixing the lives of the grieving. But inside, he's a mess – he lost his wife three years ago to a car crash. And Love Happens, despite its fixed trajectory of bring-them-together romance, becomes a study in bereavement, of a character who has failed to deal with his emotions.

Director Brandon Camp plays it in the minor key. It's set in Seattle under grey rainy sky. And Aniston isn't too bad: she's more comfortable in her shell now as a movie actress. You feel her flower arranger Eloise is a real character and not just a pretty face: a woman who can drop a cheating boyfriend in the snap of temper, and a woman who knows to be wary around a famous man.