Someone Like You (film)

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Someone Like You

Directed by	Tony Goldwyn
Produced by	Lynda Obst
Written by	Laura Zigman (novel), Elizabeth Chandler
Starring	Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman, Marisa Tomei
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	30 March 2001 (USA)
Running time	97 min
Language	English
Budget	~ US$23,000,000
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Someone Like You is a 2001 motion picture, based on Laura Zigman's novel Animal Husbandry which tells a story of a heartbroken woman who is looking for the reason she was dumped. The film stars Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman and Marisa Tomei and was directed by Tony Goldwyn. The running time is 97 minutes.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jane Goodale (Ashley Judd) works at a small TV station along with Eddie (Hugh Jackman), the producer and Diane Roberts (Ellen Barkin), an upcoming talk show host. They get a new colleague, Ray (Greg Kinnear) and Jane gets involved with him. After some time, he breaks up with her and Jane learns that he is actually the boyfriend of her boss, Diane Roberts.

Desparate, Jane tries to find out why men break up with women and comes up with several ridiculous theories which she promotes under a a fake name and a fake personality in her best friend Liz's (Marisa Tomei) magazine. She realizes, however, that all her theories are wrong - since the prime example for the cheating, women-dumping womanizer is Eddie, with whom she moves in and discovers, that he isn't as cold and cruel as she made him (and the rest of his species) to be: he himself suffers from a broken heart and tries to compensate it.

Finally, Jane confesses in Diane Roberts' talk show that she made everything up, that she had an affair with Ray and is in love with Eddie. She meets him after her TV appearance and everything ends well for the two of them.