Easy

Easy is a small budget, indie romantic comedy. A young woman, Jamie (Marguerite Moreau) says she wants true love but all she goes after are sexual relationships due to her fear of men not wanting to date her unless she has sex with them; thus the types of men attracted to her inherently makes the relationships short-term and non-commital. She re-meets a handsome poet, John (Naveen Andrews), who once taught a class she was in and they start a casual sexual relationship despite him being separated from his wife. Jamie's job involves testing new products to think of a catchy name for them, and a cable comedy talk show host Mick (Brian F. O'Byrne) thinks this is quirky and invites her on the show. This sets up the romantic triangle and Jamie's search to determine what sort of man she wants long-term.

Jamie's relationship with John goes sour when he wants to return to his wife. Mick tries to make romantic gestures to start something with her, but Jamie has gone sour too and decides to be abstinent for 90 days, so that she can learn to be friendly with men instead of just jumping in the sack with them. But she can't stop thinking of John, while Mick waits patiently by and becomes her friend.

While the route of Jamie's eventual romantic relationship is not very much in doubt, and at times Moreau's acting is a little self-conscious, I liked the Jamie/Mick dynamic, despite him pretty much being a fantasy guy (what guy is going to put up with these shenanigans from a woman?) John to me seemed less desirable, both physically and emotionally, despite Jamie's (and other women's) attraction to him and so the film's attempt to match him up with someone at the end also seems disingenuous (the film matches up almost everyone in Jamie's circle of friends and family by the end of the story). I liked that it did explore a lot of types of relationships and the stickiness of being in a small social circle where everyone knows everyone else. Supporting actors were mostly good, especially Caroline Goodall as a bisexual friend of Mick's and Emily Deschanel as Jamie's sister.