Robert "Kramer Vs Kramer" Benton directs this syrupy, drivelly, snivelly nonsense, which stars Morgan Freeman as a wise, humorous, rumbly-voiced wearer of reading glasses - great to see Morgan challenging himself as an actor, isn't it? Squeaky-clean Greg Kinnear plays his friend, a lovelorn romantic guy who runs a coffee shop yuckily called Jitters.

It is a supposedly heartwarming emotional drama in what I call the life-affirming-laughter-and-tears genre - ie, the genre that makes me want to spray the nearest shopping mall with bullets before turning the gun on myself. Kinnear's wife runs out on him with another woman, like an episode from TV's The L Word, but this faintly interesting storyline is supplanted by others far more boring and unreal, reeking with phoney empathy and creepy lite-eroticism. If it's a choice between cleaning out the shed and seeing this - opt for the shed.