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You know what they say about favors never ask anyone to do something you wouldn't do yourself! Fromthe director of Mystic Pizza and Miss Congeniality comes a "funny, light-hearted comedy of errors" (LA Weekly) about a woman who learns this lesson the hard way. Starring Elizabeth McGovern (The Handmaid's Tale), Harley Jane Kozak (Parenthood), Bill Pullman (While You Were Sleeping), Brad Pitt (Thelma & Louise) and Ken Wahl ("Wiseguy"), The Favor is a "laugh-out-loud, light-hearted romp" (Boxoffice)! On the eve of her 15-year high school reunion, Kathy (Kozak) fantasizes about making love to her hunky ex-boyfriend Tom (Ken Wahl) because she never got to in high school! Now married, Kathy devises an ingenious way to sleep with Tom without cheating: sex through proxy! Begging her open-minded best friend Emily (McGovern)to seduce her old flame so she can get all the juicy details, Kathy is unprepared for the consequences when Emily falls for Tom! Suddenly it's like high school all over again as these two friends sharpen their claws over "the favor" that has gone too far!

Rating : - Agreeable, yet unremarkable romantic comedy
Harley Jane Kozak is good in her role as Kathy, a woman stuck in a good marriage to brainy dweeb Peter. Despite having a brilliant husband and two young girls, she is nonetheless unhappy because her impending class reunion is dredging up fond memories of her hunky and athletic high school flame, Tom. This mid-life crisis makes her wonder how delightfully romantic life with Tom would be now. Compounding this is her envy of her gorgeous friend Emily, a single woman who has had too many romantic encounters to recall. Kathy obsesses about Tom because they never consummated their relationship, and she simply must know his current status. Since Emily is going be traveling in Tom's vicinity, Kathy asks Emily for The Favor. This is where the trouble begins. Bill Pullman is decent as the absent-minded professor, who only has work on the brain, and Brad Pitt is uniformly fine in his supporting role as Emily's immature young paramour. Larry Miller delivers most of the film's funny lines and I can always watch the beautiful Elizabeth McGovern. Although the film is cute, it makes for little more than an amusing diversion for an hour and a half or so. This isn't a must-see movie, unless one happens to be a huge fan of one of the actors involved.