MANILA, Philippines - In Columbia Pictures’ new romantic comedy Just Go With It, a plastic surgeon (Adam Sandler), romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
At the center of Just Go With It is an everyday guy who has let a careless lie get away from him. “At the beginning of the movie, my character, Danny, was going to get married, but he gets his heart broken,” says Adam. “The night of his heartbreak he happens to have the ring on and a young lady is nice to him, because she thinks he’s married and thinks he’s harmless and won’t do anything that other guys were trying to do. A light goes off in his head.”
The ring becomes his scheme to avoid getting his heart broken: The ladies think he’s off the table, and with no strings attached, no one gets hurt — especially not Danny. But when he meets Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), the girl of his dreams, his lies come back to haunt him — she thinks he’s married. Instead of coming clean, he chooses to weave an even more tangled web: He invents a fake wife — to be played by his long-suffering assistant, Katherine (Jennifer) — from whom he can get a fake divorce, clearing the way for smooth sailing with Palmer.
But that’s just the start — as Danny and Katherine attempt to keep up the charade, the lie keeps getting bigger and bigger. “Every lie has a domino effect,” says director Dennis Dugan who most recently directed Adam in Grown Ups, the star’s biggest worldwide hit to date, taking in more than $260M.
Before Katherine knows it, her kids, Maggie and Michael, have been looped into the lie, but they’ll need a little more convincing… especially when Michael sees a way to turn the tables on Danny.
Opening Feb. 16 in theaters, Just Go With It is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.
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