No Strings Attached

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Natalie Portman as Dr. Emma K. Kurtzman. She grew up in Ann Arbor and attended MIT.
  • Stefanie Scott as young Emma
• Ashton Kutcher as Adam Franklin. He works as production assistant for a musical television show
  • Dylan Hayes as young Adam
• Kevin Kline as Alvin Franklin, Adam’s father. He’s had two failed marriages.
• Cary Elwes as Dr. Steven Metzner, Emma’s boss
• Greta Gerwig as Dr. Patrice, Emma’s friend
• Lake Bell as Lucy, Adam’s colleague from the TV production
• Olivia Thirlby as Katie Kurtzman, Emma’s younger 22-year-old sister. Her boyfriend is Kevin.
• Ludacris (Chris Bridges) as Wallace, Adam’s friend
• Jake Johnson as Eli, Adam’s friend. He has two gay dads.
• Mindy Kaling as Dr. Shira, Emma’s friend
• Talia Balsam as Sandra Kurtzman, Emma and Katie’s mother
• Ophelia Lovibond as Vanessa, Alvin’s girlfriend and Adam’s ex-girlfriend
• Guy Branum as Dr. Guy, Emma’s gay friend
• Ben Lawson as Dr. Sam, a co-worker of Emma, who likes her
• Jennifer Irwin as Megan, Adam’s boss
• Nasim Pedrad as Writer
• Adhir Kalyan as Kevin, Katie’s fiancé
• Abby Elliott as Joy
• Matthew Moy as Chuck
• Brian H. Dierker as Bones, Sandra’s boyfriend
• Mollee Gray as Sari
• Vedette Lim as Lisa

Storyline:

Occasionally in the 15 years since summer camp, Adam and Emma cross paths. When he discovers that an ex-girlfriend is living with his dad, he gets drunk, calls every woman in his cell phone contact list, and ends up passed out naked in her living room. By this time, she’s a medical resident in L.A. and he’s a gopher on a “Glee”-like TV series, hoping to be a writer. She guards her emotions (calling her father’s funeral “a thing”), so after a quick shag in the moments she has before leaving for the hospital, she asks if he wants a no-strings-attached, sex-only relationship, without romance or complications. A prescription for fun or for disaster?

About Movie:

No Strings Attached is a 2011 American romantic comedy directed and co-produced by Ivan Reitman, starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. The film is based on a screenplay by Elizabeth Meriwether, originally titled Friends with Benefits, but the title was changed to avoid confusion with another movie of the same name released later that year.

Announced by Paramount Pictures in March 2010 as an untitled project, the film quickly cast Portman and Kutcher in the lead roles, with an initial release date set for January 7, 2011.

Principal photography began in May 2010, and by November, the film was renamed No Strings Attached and rescheduled for release on January 21, 2011.

Portman, fresh off her dramatic role in Black Swan, appreciated the opportunity to play a lighthearted character in this romantic comedy. The film had its world premiere on January 11, 2011, at the Fox Village Theater in Los Angeles and was released widely across 3,018 theaters in the U.S. and Canada on January 21.

While No Strings Attached received mixed reviews, the performances and chemistry between Portman and Kutcher were praised, though the direction and screenplay faced criticism.

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