Rumor Has It...

"Rumor Has It..." is a high-concept comedy whose high concept is the most
interesting thing about it. Once that's out of the way, it's just your basic
relationship melodrama.

But it is a great concept. A Pasadena woman named Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer
Aniston) comes to realize that her grandmother and mother both slept with the
same man, and that their story was subsequently fictionalized into the book and
film "The Graduate." What's more, she thinks she might be the offspring of the
affair between her mother and the man in question.

The film is set in January 1997 (which makes one character's reference to
"Titanic," released 11 months later, a bad idea), with Sarah newly engaged to
her adoring boyfriend Jeff (Mark Ruffalo). They have flown home to Pasadena for
the wedding of Sarah's younger sister, Annie (Mena Suvari), and thus Sarah finds
herself once again immersed in...
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