Why can't i stop watching this movie

Rating: 9/10 (14 May 2005)

When I first saw this movie, I didn't know if I liked it, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. Like Adaptation and Lost in Translation, I found myself thinking about this movie days and weeks after I saw it, and, watching it again. Braff's writing is so natural, so real, so true to what people would actually say and do in those particular situations....and the soundtrack is AWESOME! Its not deep, it isn't necessarily clever, its fairly well-acted (Jean Smart, in her one scene is GREAT! that whole scene is GREAT...and natalie portman is sooooo good.) and it sells out at the end, and turns something that hints at mysterious allegory into simply love story, but I don't care!!!! I just love this movie, its like cinematic anti-anxiety prescription. Thats it. Not too deep, just calm.