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Site FAQs » He's an idiot in the sense Ned Paul Rudd that he doesn't lie or cheat. Miranda Elizabeth Banks still playing Contact us » He doesn't calculate the Natalie Zooey Deschanel odds on getting away with Liz Emily Mortimer Dolphin Tale Email the Movie things. He trusts people. He Amigo Answer Man » Janet Kathryn Hahn always tells the truth. Dylan Steve Coogan Another Earth Attack the Block Wasn't there a study Cindy Rashida Jones Bellflower on sale now proving that human society Christian Hugh Dancy would collapse if we didn't A Better Life Ilene Shirley Knight lie? Blank City Jeremy Adam Scott Bride Flight Ned (Paul Rudd) is sort of a Brighton Rock saint. He has a beatific The Weinstein Co. presents a film Captain America: The First Avenger The Change-Up smile, wishes you the best directed by Jesse Peretz. Written by Chasing Madoff Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall. and doesn't hold grudges. Circumstance He also doesn't hold jobs Running time: 96 minutes. 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When the Love Crime genes were being shaken up in his family tree, all of the kind ones The Man Who Fell to Earth must have fallen into his pool. Moneyball Monte Carlo The movie circles with Mozart's Sister nimble wit through an A-list Mysteries of Lisbon Buy now » of supporting characters. The Names of Love Ned's sisters are Liz (Emily One Day Mortimer), a doting mom One Lucky Elephant married to a filmmaker Our Idiot Brother (Steve Coogan); Miranda Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times (Elizabeth Banks), an Phunny Business: A Black Comedy ambitious writer who hopes Point Blank Project Nim to work for Vanity Fair Rapt magazine, and Natalie The sisters: Emily Mortimer, Restless Buy now » (Zooey Deschanel), who Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel. Resurrect Dead: Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles may be a lesbian and is Rise of the Planet of the Apes certainly in love with Cindy (Enlarge Image) Road to Nowhere (Rashida Jones). Their The Robber mother is Ilene, played by the legendary Shirley Knight, who is one of Sarah's Key those rare all-day wine drinkers who can stay topped up and never Senna get hammered. It goes without saying, I suppose, that the Steve Seven Days in Utopia Coogan character is a bit of a rat; his characters usually are. But Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness Cindy the lesbian is free of all the tiresome cliches about lesbians in Sleep Furiously comedies, and daringly plots with Ned to regain ownership of Willie Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Buy now » Nelson, his beloved dog. Straw Dogs Tabloid Terri I know someone just like Ned. She is a woman. She has an uncanny 30 Minutes or Less gift for making a statement, looking puzzled when a hush falls upon Transformers: Dark of the Moon the room, and saying, "Uh-oh. I thought everyone knew that." In The Undefeated Ned's case, his startling honesties seem to be blessed. 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