Buttoned-down 20-something Eric isn?t ready to marry his longtime girlfriend Abby. His only way out is through slacker Sam, his identical twin brother, who offers to pose as Eric to do the dumping. But the plan becomes a disaster when Sam realizes Abby is actually really cool–and falls head over heels for her…

Could be a cute comedy, but I would rephrase the logline so something like: Mayhem erupts when Sam decides to help his twin brother Sam dump his girlfriend and realises that she is the girl of his dreams.

🙂 Of course Richiev. Thanks.

Firstly, we have two brothers here who seem to be equally commitment-phobic losers. (They certainly are twins, I guess.) It’s hard to care much about either, even in the context of a comedy.

Secondly, there is a plausibility problem here. Unless the twins have lived widely apart for many years and Sam has only recently come into town, why did not Sam notice Abby’s specialness in all this time? As brothers of the same age, Sam would have had many occasions to see and speak to Eric’s girlfriend in parties and so forth. Given the likely length of Sam’s association with Abby, what would there be about her that would remain undiscovered by him?

Sure there may be cheap gags to be had with the brothers as they are (one, a boring dope, and the other, a slacker). And you can get a few more gags about them being twins too. But none of this makes for an engaging story. Particularly not a feature-length one.

Even for a goof-ball comedy, this kind of set up – where the intended ‘dumper’ falls for the girl he is supposed to be ditching – requires some kind of credible basis where the dumper has not had much opportunity to get to know the girl until put in the position of trying to dump her. The two brothers being twins short circuits this.

On the face of it, the story portrayed by this logline is so weak that I can only suppose that the script is loaded with clever lines and hilarious situations.

Steven Fernandez (Judge)