Definitely, Maybe - wikipedia Definitely, Maybe For other uses, see Definitely Maybe ( disambiguation ). Definitely, Maybe Theatrical release poster Directed by Adam Brooks Produced by Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Written by Adam Brooks Starring Ryan Reynolds Isla Fisher Derek Luke Abigail Breslin Elizabeth Banks Rachel Weisz Music by Clint Mansell Cinematography Florian Ballhaus Edited by Peter Teschner Production companies StudioCanal Working Title Films Distributed by Universal Pictures Release date February 14, 2008 ( 2008 - 02 - 14 ) Running time 111 minutes Country Germany United Kingdom United States France Language English Box office $55.4 million Definitely, Maybe is a 2008 romantic comedy - drama film written and directed by Adam Brooks, and starring Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, Abigail Breslin, and Kevin Kline. Set in New York City during the 1990s, the film is about a political consultant who tries to help his eleven - year - old daughter understand his impending divorce by telling her the story of his past romantic relationships and how he ended up marrying her mother. The film grossed $55 million worldwide. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Music 4 Release 5 Reception 6 References 7 External links Plot 38 - year - old father Will Hayes is in the midst of a divorce. After her first sex - ed class, his 10 - year - old daughter Maya insists on hearing the story of how her parents met. Will reluctantly gives in, but decides to change the names and some of the facts relating to the various love affairs of his youth, thereby creating a love mystery ; Maya is left guessing which of the women will turn out to be her mother. The story he tells Maya is depicted in flashbacks. From time to time the film switches back to the present, where Maya comments ( often critically ) and asks questions. The story begins in 1992 when Will, an idealistic political operative, moves away from Wisconsin and his college sweetheart, Emily, to New York City, where he works on the Clinton campaign. Over the years, Will becomes involved with three women who enter his life, including Summer Hartley, an aspiring journalist, and April, the copy girl for the campaign. Will and April have a chance meeting outside work, where Will reveals he is going to propose to Emily. When Will practices his proposal to Emily on April, she is taken aback by Will 's wholehearted words and replies, `` Definitely, maybe. '' They go back to her apartment, where April has multiple copies of Jane Eyre in her collection, explaining that her father gave her a copy with an inscription in the front shortly before he died, and the book was later lost. She has spent years looking through copies of Jane Eyre at secondhand stores hoping to find the copy her father gave her, but she buys any copy she finds that has an inscription. They kiss, but Will abruptly stops and leaves. Emily comes back to New York where she confesses, just after Will proposes, that she slept with his roommate. She did it on purpose to break up with Will, saying that she is `` letting him go '' because she does not share his passionate ambitions. After Clinton is elected, Will opens a campaigning business with most of his work colleagues, which enjoys a good amount of success. Before Will left Wisconsin, Emily asked Will to deliver a package to her former roommate, Summer Hartley, who is living in New York City. Will first meets Summer when he gives her the package, a diary that she wrote when she was a teenager ( which, among other things, tells of her brief affair with Emily ). He finds she is going out with a famous writer who is old enough to be her father. The writer breaks up with Summer, and Will starts a relationship with her. April quits her job and leaves to travel around the world. When she returns, she plans to tell Will that she loves him, but discovers that he is planning to propose marriage to Summer. April half - heartedly congratulates him instead. Summer writes an offensive article about one of Will 's clients. Will can not forgive this conflict of interest, and he ends his relationship with Summer. As a result of the article, Will loses his business and his dream of a political career ends, with all of his friends abandoning him. April calls after a long absence and finds that Will has a new job, but is despondent and depressed, feelings further exacerbated when she reveals she has a new boyfriend named Kevin. She throws a birthday party for him, reuniting him with his old colleagues. Will gets drunk and confesses he loves April. When she tells him he should 've told her when he had his life together, he starts an argument with her when he implies that she is wasting her life working in a book store. Some time later, Will passes a used book store and finds the copy of Jane Eyre that April has been seeking with the note from her father. Will goes to April 's apartment to give her the book, but he decides against it when he meets Kevin, who is now living with her. Emily moves to New York City, and she and Will rekindle their relationship after a run - in at a party of Summer 's they both were attending. Maya correctly guesses that `` Emily '' is her mother. Maya states that it is unfortunate that the story has a sad ending, but Will explains that the story has a happy ending : Maya. Will decides to bring the copy of Jane Eyre to April. While catching up, it is revealed that they are now both single among other things. When giving April the book, Will apologizes for waiting so long to do so and a hurt April asks him to leave. Maya is happy to have figured out the story, but she realizes that her father will never love her mother romantically again because he still loves April. She figures this out from the way he talks about her in the story and that while he changes her mother 's name from Sarah to Emily and Natasha 's to Summer, he keeps April 's name the same. Maya makes Will have an epiphany, realizing that he is miserable without April and has loved her all along since the moment he met her. They go to April 's apartment and Will talks to her over the speaker. Just as Will and Maya begin to walk away ( since April stopped responding and did n't let Will in the building ), April runs out and asks what story Maya was talking about. Will tells April that he kept Jane Eyre because it was the only thing he had left of her ( revealing in doing so that he still loves her ). April hugs Will as she forgives him and then walks hand - in - hand with Maya into her building to hear the story. As Maya walks upstairs, April embraces Will ( subsequently revealing that she loves him too ) and they kiss. Cast Ryan Reynolds as William Matthew ' Will ' Hayes Isla Fisher as April Hoffman Derek Luke as Russell T. McCormack Abigail Breslin as Maya Hayes Elizabeth Banks as `` Emily Jones '' / Sarah Rachel Weisz as `` Summer Hartley '' / Natasha Kevin Kline as Professor Hampton Roth Adam Ferrara as Gareth Annie Parisse as Anne Liane Balaban as Kelly Nestor Serrano as Arthur Robredo Marc Bonan as Kevin Alexie Gilmore as Olivia Kevin Corrigan as Simon Music The film was scored by English composer Clint Mansell. Lakeshore Records released the score on March 18, 2008. All Music Guide reviewer William Ruhlmann praised the album as filled with `` sweet, melodic numbers that often seem to lack only a lyric to turn them into pop songs ''. He also stated that it functioned as `` light accompaniment to an equally light entertainment ''. Release In its opening weekend, the film cleared its production budget of $7 million by grossing $9.8 million in 2,204 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking # 5 at the box office. As of September 28, 2008, the film has grossed $55,447,968 worldwide. The film was released on DVD June 24, 2008, with a widescreen transfer, deleted scenes, two short featurettes, and a commentary track by Reynolds and director Brooks. Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 71 % of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 144 reviews ; the average rating is 6.5 / 10. The site 's consensus reads : `` With a clever script and charismatic leads, Definitely, Maybe is a refreshing entry into the romantic comedy genre. '' Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 59 out of 100 based on 30 reviews. References Jump up ^ `` Definitely, Maybe ( 12A ) ''. British Board of Film Classification. January 7, 2008. Retrieved December 1, 2008. ^ Jump up to : `` Definitely, Maybe ( 2008 ) ''. British Film Institute. Retrieved 2017 - 01 - 19. Jump up ^ `` Clint Mansell Definitely, Maybe ( Original Score ) ''. www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 February 2016. Jump up ^ Definitely, Maybe : Movie Details at the-numbers.com Accessed 30 December 2017 Jump up ^ `` Definitely, Maybe ( 2008 ) - Weekend Box Office Results ''. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008 - 02 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Definitely, Maybe ( 2008 ) ''. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008 - 02 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Definitely, Maybe -- Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures -- Rotten Tomatoes ''. Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Definitely, Maybe ( 2008 ) : Reviews ''. Metacritic. Retrieved 2008 - 02 - 15. 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Question: who turns out to be the mom in definitely maybe
Answer: Emily