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In this unwatchable romantic comedy from director Michael Lehmann ("40 Days and 40 Nights") Diane Keaton plays Daphne Wilder, an inept mother of three pretty but not-believable-as-siblings daughters.

Circumcision, breast size, and orgasm jokes abound as the never-had-a-climax mom surreptitiously places online dating ads for her awkward daughter Milly (Mandy Moore) to catch a lad.

Milly's romantic choice is split between a gentlemanly architect (Tom Everett Scott) and a smarmy guitar player (Gabriel Macht) with an eligible father who falls for Daphne.

Every attempt at slapstick and innuendo-laced humor falls flat in a seemingly computer-written chick flick that contributes to keeping the genre the most reviled of all cinematic categories.   

Rated PG-13. 102 mins.