Ira & Abby Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Cary
Genres: Comedy
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Love at first sight has some interesting repercussions a few months down the line in this offbeat romantic comedy. Ira Black (Chris_Messina) is a wildly neurotic thirtysomething who can't get his life in gear -- the son of a pair of therapists, Arlene (Judith_Light) and Seymour (Robert_Klein), Ira still hasn't finished his grad school dissertation, he's been in therapy for 12 years, and can't bring himself to settle down with his longtime girlfriend Lea (Maddie_Corman). When both Lea and his analyst inform Ira that they don't want to see him anymore, he decides he needs to make some changes. Ira joins a health club, where he meets Abby Willoughby (Jennifer_Westfeldt), who is supposed to sell memberships to the gym but is much better at listening to people's problems. The two discover they have a strong and immediate rapport, and Ira asks Abby to marry him only a few hours later. Abby says yes, and soon the couple are wed. However, it isn't until after they've been married for a few weeks that Ira discovers Abby has been divorced twice already, and it makes him very uneasy about their relationship. Despite more therapy, Ira asks Abby for a divorce, and it sends shock waves through their families -- Arlene begins having an affair with Michael (Fred_Willard), Abby's free-spirited father, while Seymour commiserates with Abby's mother Lynne (Frances_Conroy), and eventually parents and children are all meeting together in group therapy for couples. Ira and Abby was written by leading lady Jennifer_Westfeldt, who was also screenwriter and star for the independent hit Kissing_Jessica_Stein. Mark Deming, Rovi
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