This is a high concept movie where the story behind 'The Graduate' is actually based on true life. Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston) is coming home with her boyfriend Jeff Daly (Mark Ruffalo) for her sister Annie (Mena Suvari)'s wedding. She learns that the movie may be based on her family history. She may be the result of a union between her mother and Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner) who also slept with her grandmother (Shirley MacLaine). When she finally meets him, she does something that may be in the family character.

I love the idea, but I don't like the Jennifer Aniston and Mark Ruffalo couple. There is no chemistry at all. When Kevin Costner saunters in, his ease is immediately disarming. The relationship has some uncomfortableness that is handled deftly with humor. This is where most of the funny jokes reside. I really don't see the Ruffalo Aniston pairing and that's why the ending doesn't work. These two are probably going to get divorced down the road. Sarah tells Annie that it's good to marry her best friend. I'm not convinced that Sarah and Jeff are best friends. They're more like annoyed acquaintances.

I can not believe that a lucid person can like this flick, unless a fan of Jennifer Aniston, or Kevin Costner, or Shirley MacLaine, or Mark Ruffalo. The plot is one of the most silly and ridiculous I have ever seen in a movie: Sarah Huttinger heard a rumor that her grandmother might have been the real "Mrs. Robinson" that inspired the successful movie "The Graduate". She decides to investigate the truth and finds that the man that had sex with her grandmother, had also with her mother and in the end she meets him and completes the fate of the women of her family also having sex with the guy. Is it funny? Have I missed some point about this dysfunctional family of whores? This rumor has no humor, is an awful lack of respect with "The Graduate" and a great disappointment. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Dizem Por Ai" ("It is Told That")

The film is inspired by the plot of The Graduate. If only this was half as good as that classic. The premise is that the author of the novel, The Graduate based his book on real people who lived in 1960s Pasadena. A bride who ran away with this young graduate three days before her wedding and the guy had also slept with her mother, the original Mrs Robinson.

Sarah (Jennifer Aniston) is engaged to be married to Jeff (Mark Ruffalo) who attends her sister's wedding, hears about this rumour and she realises that life might had imitated art. Her late mother may have had an affair with Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner) several days before her wedding. Sarah wonders if Burroughs could be her real father and that she also slept with her grandmother (Shirley Maclaine.)

Sarah heads of to find Beau Burroughs who is a dot com millionaire and it looks like she could be the third generation in her family to fall for his charms.

As romantic comedy it fails on both counts. There were moments in this film I watched in utter embarrassment that this drivel was being passed on to me as entertainment from a director of the calibre of Rob Reiner.

There is no chemistry of a spark of romance between Sarah and Jeff, you can see it when they attempt to have sex in an aeroplane bathroom (which is kind of difficult at the time when this movie was made with increased aeroplane security in the USA, believe me I tried it in that era!)

Sarah's father (Richard Jenkins) makes jokes about Pasadena and has silly games like holding one's breath while driving through a tunnel. Making a family quirky does not make them funny.

The script was misconceived and left their actors flailing about with what they had. Costner, Jenkins and Mena Suvari were wasted. Ruffalo was just ill at ease. Maclaine could had played her role in her sleep as the glamorous grandmother.