It was nice, cheerful enough, but the two protagonists’ love story was boring and full of cliches. The ending was pale, but there were funny moments, that were more or less all in the trailer, and there was Lucy Liu which is always a good point.
It starts with showing us the life of many personal assistants, and how they are treated like slaves by irrational men and women that have absolute power over their lives.
Then we are introduced to Harper and Charlie, who supposedly have it worse than anyone. They have a boss who works all the time and demands very much of them, so they have no time for a personal life.
They meet each other while desperately trying to get some food for their boss. Harper ordered it, but she has no cash to pay for it. Charlie didn’t order it (because Rick first said he didn’t want it) but he has cash, so he pays and takes it, but Harper manages to convince him of taking one thing each. She had ordered one thing for Kirsten and one for herself, so they take one each.
Kirsten is a journalist, she writes about sport and Harper thinks she’s a goddess.
Rick is… someone somehow important, apparently, whatever he does, and Charlie hopes that sooner or later he’ll get promoted because a promotion by Rick goes a long way.
Charlie and Harper meet again because she has to pay him back for the food. It’s quite late so they start talking about why they’re both still at work, and then about who has the worst boss, then Charlie takes out some alcohol (discarded by Rick because not enough expensive) and after a few glasses Harper starts saying that maybe their bosses work so much because they don’t have a sex life, so she starts saying that they should get the two together so they’d hook up together and be less mean. Charlie resists at first but then agrees after Rick keeps being a jerk.
Harper has a point, they know everything about Kirsten and Rick, so they can be their Cyrano.
They start by getting them stuck in an elevator, but that doesn’t go too well since a delivery man, a huge one, enters and freaks out when it stops and starts taking his clothes off and even pissing in some glasses (that was a bit too far, come on).
So, the two Cyranos keep trying. Harper tells Kirsten the guy in the elevator asked for her number, while Charlie tells Rick that Kirsten’s site is very sought after.
They send them both to a baseball game with a business meeting pretence, and have them appear on the kiss cam (three times until they eventually kiss).
Kirsten and Rick sleep together, and that day they both leave work during the day, to the assistant’s delight.
Charlie spends his time with Suze, and even his roommate can’t stand her. Harper meets a guy for minigolf and she likes him (although HER sense of humour is odd and embarrassing).
Kirsten is upset because Rick hasn’t called her yet, so they make him call her.
They have Kirsten have a bikini shave (which I didn’t understand, didn’t they already sleep together or did I misunderstand that?)
Only now we see that Charlie had no idea who Cyrano was… oh God.
They send Kirsten flowers and expensive alcohol to Rick, and they plan their dates and the clothes they wear and they write the cards inside the flowers… and it is working, they go out often so they have free time for their personal lives.
Harper wants them to go out for a weekend so she’ll have time for her best-friend’s engagement party, but then Charlie forgot to plan the last date and it went horribly wrong (Kirsten chose Korean barbecue and Rick agreed even though he didn’t know what it was, then he didn’t let her explain and then he threw up and blamed her).
Rick thinks she wanted him to look stupid so he destroys Charlie’s laptop, and then he destroys the science project Charlie made for Rick’s son so now he has to made another one and Harper helps him.
Rick comes to the office all drunk, (and he’s much nicer when drunk, much much nicer), and Charlie tells him what to say to Kirsten and Rick goes to her while still drunk and they make up.
So they go to their weekend away, all planned by the assistants.
Charlie and Harper go together to Suze pool party, have some more odd conversations, then Charlie goes with her to the engagement party, have some embarrassing but maybe fun dancing, then they leave because the pizzas haven’t arrived yet… which seemed a bit cold to me, honestly, but apparently Harper was too hungry to wait with the others and so they went out and bought a pizza for themselves and went to eat it at Charlie’s place (through the emergency staircase because his roommate is with someone and he doesn’t want to interrupt).
They eat pizza together and start liking each other so she goes away.
Rick is in Kirsten’s office, and they get Charlie there to tell them both that they are getting married.
Rick offers Charlie a promotion once they get back from the marriage next week, and Harper is offered that article she talked about (but never actually wrote).
Charlie is shocked to hear that Rick still plans to sleep with his ex-wife Kiki right before telling him to go buy a ring for Kirsten.
Harper is happy because she thinks they made two people fall in love, and Charlie doesn’t tell her.
Harper hears Rick talking to a woman on the phone, but she knows Kirsten is on a meeting, so she confronts Charlie and learns the truth.
Charlie says that Kirsten doesn’t ever has to know about it, but Harper doesn’t want to help Rick cheat on her. Especially after Kirsten told her how she found a man that understands her and supports her, which isn’t true, because they told Rick everything, they wrote the messages and chose everything.
She goes all out on him, a big speech on how he cares only about himself and his promotion, then she goes to Kirsten and tells her the truth, that she and Rick were set up.
She tells her that she doesn’t really love Rick, that it wasn’t real. That they were tricked into thinking they loved each other while actually they don’t even know each other.
Harper tries to write her article but is having a hard time at it, but finally she manages after some encouragement from her best friend (and some free chips from a place that is way too accommodating, I don’t know of a place that would let her crash there eating all their free chips without ever paying anything, not even one drink, nothing…)
Charlie takes Suze to an expensive restaurant and she’s excited (just because it’s expensive I guess) and suddenly he’s missing the pizza he ate with Harper and breaks up with Suze and walks away just like that. :-/
Harper is writing her article so she doesn’t answer him when he calls, and he goes to the airport to stop Rick and Kirsten from getting married.
He shouts at Rick that he’s a bastard and he quits his job, then he tells Kirsten not to marry him, that she deserves better, then there’s a very lame moment when Kirsten asks him questions like her favourite food and such (things that Charlie knows but Rick doesn’t) then Rick even calls her Kiki and Kirsten leaves him.
Rick goes to Charlie’s place to ask for information on Kiki because he wants to win her back (yep, Kiki, not Kirsten).
Harper finishes her article. Kirsten offers her old job back but she refuses, saying she used it as an excuse to not write, so Kirsten helps her with that after Harper promises to help her find a new assistant.
It ends with Charlie meeting her outside her office building, after Kirsten set them up to meet, and they get together… but they’re boring so I wasn’t much thrilled about it.
Anyway, they use the term Cyrano as a verb, kind of like setting people up, which is not exactly what Cyrano was…
ITA: Come far perdere la testa al capo
Harper - Zoey Deutch
Charlie - Glen Powell
Kirsten - Lucy Liu
Rick - Taye Diggs
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