How to Deal (2003), PG-13

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How to Deal starring Trent Ford. (Photo: New Line)

About How to Deal

Sometimes life gets turned upside down. And maybe that’s why it’s so hard to believe that anyone, especially 17 year-old Halley Martin, could actually experience that thing called love. The people closest to Halley are in the midst of major upheavals in their love lives. Her mother, Lydia, is embittered by her recently finalized divorce. Her sister, Ashley, is marrying a guy with whom she is constantly fighting. Her best friend, Scarlett, can’t keep her hands off of her first serious boyfriend. Most distressingly for Halley, her father, Len, who is a DJ at a local radio station, combats his midlife crisis with a stereotypically boyish elopement to the station’s much-younger traffic reporter.So how’s Halley supposed to deal? She isn’t about to let herself succumb to the pipe dream of storybook romance, and Macon Forrester is the one guy who challenges her idea that love just complicates a perfectly good friendship. As Halley’s life grows more and more complicated, she finds a friend in Macon, but when she feels herself falling for him, will Halley move beyond her fears and disappointments to experience real love?

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    How To Deal

    How To Deal starring Trent Ford, Allison Janney, Alexander Holden, Mandy Moore, Peter Gallagher

US Release Date

2003-07-18

MPAA Rating

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, drug material and some thematic elements

Running Time

101 mins.

Locations

  • Toronto, Canada

Language

  • English

Box Office Total

14108518

Distributor

  • New Line Cinema
  • Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group

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