Aniston ‘Isn’t That Into You’ Either

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 16, 2007

Last week we reported that Drew Barrymore would be joining the cast of He’s Just Not That Into You, an adaptation of the very popular self-helpish book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. Now Jennifer Aniston will be joining Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Justin Long and Ginnider Goodwin in the film, set in Baltimore.

As we reported last week, the plot is as follows:

The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior. Jennifer Connelly plays a woman stuck in a tired marriage with Cooper’s character. Kevin Connolly, meanwhile, is a man pining after a woman, still not cast, who is having an affair with Cooper. Goodwin is a young woman obsessed with Kevin Connolly’s character who tries to set up accidental meetings with him only to run across his friend, played by Long, who takes her on as a “My Fair Lady” experiment. Barrymore plays a woman perpetually confused by dating, now more than ever in a culture that is more obsessed with technology than actual human contact.

As The Hollywood Reporter described, Aniston will play a woman in a long-term relationship with a boyfriend who will not commit to marriage — as if that’s realistic.

Production on the film is scheduled to start in early September in Los Angeles.

On the Side: Jennifer Aniston’s most critically heralded role was in 1993’s Leprechaun, which also starred Warwick Davis of Willow. No, seriously…

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