In this flat, sour, and contrived comedy, Roger (Jon Heder), a timid New York City parking cop who is overmatched at work and in love, signs up for classes with a macho confidence guru, Dr. P. (Billy Bob Thornton), and, taught to find his inner lion, gets up the nerve to ask out his secret dream girl, his Australian grad-student neighbor, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett).

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In 1975, Lili (Isild Le Besco), a quiet upper-bourgeois Parisian girl bored with her twin roles as daughter and art student, abruptly takes up with a handsome, gentle-looking boy (Ouassini Embarek) of Moroccan descent.

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But I am a 22-year-old girl, living in New York City, with student loans, awkward booty calls and a few close girl friends.

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"I think she's really happy that this is over and, remember, she is a 16-year-old girl still and she's a high school student, " he said.

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The grandmother and the girl stood blinking alongside me as I groused about losing student papers and manuscripts -- plus a pricey new laptop.

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