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How Do You Know

ComedyDramaRomance

After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau. From TMDB

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2024

    Do people on Twitter still do that genre of engagement farming where they’re like “can you name a Jack Nicholson movie that is NOT How Do You Know (2010)”

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  • Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    Worst movie I saw in theatres as a kid vs as an adult How Do You Know (2010) Great actors in script hell. Nothing, literally nothing, happens for this entire movie Rise of Skywalker (2019) I’d heard bad reviews, but was like ‘it can’t be THAT bad’ oh my sweet summer child, it was so much worse

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  • Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    whats the worst movie u have ever seen? I have 3: How Do You Know (2010) The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Disenchanted (2022) All of them are badly written and barely have a plot.

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  • cullen Forever! The Show The Movie @cullenforever.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    How Do You Know (Yearly Rewatch) Imagine a $120M 2 hour romcom where everything is wrong and ever scene goes on for too long. Genuinely fascinating movie made by aliens. All my friends in call are offended.

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  • Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    How Do You Know… James L. Brooks’ #EllaMcCay / #EllaMcCayMovie is bad? It’s definitely NOT As Good As It Gets. I’ll Do Anything… to get y’all to click on my review (that I’ve dubbed Broadcast Snooze.) to find out. freshfiction.tv/ella-mccay-r...

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  • mimi🫈 @ushinotokimairi.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    afterwards sj is like "the movie was bad anyway" and sy is like "HOW DO YOU KNOW, YOU DIDN'T SEE ANY OF IT >:("

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  • C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    Go look at the gross and budget of Brooks' last film HOW DO YOU KNOW. The end of his career has been a pair of absolute disasters.

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  • MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    I'm still annoyed about the generic dramedy title trend of the late '90s/aughts (As Good As It Gets, Just Go With It, Something's Gotta Give, It's Complicated, How Do You Know). How Do You Know was definitely the nadir, I actually had to Google "Paul Rudd Jack Nicholson softball movie" to find it.

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  • Panera lemonade @gateshawk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2025

    “How Do You Know” (2010). This is a movie about Reese Witherspoon as a softball player trying to make the Olympics and Paul Rudd trying to fight charges of securities fraud.

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  • Marissa @marissags.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    "Good phone call." - Owen Wilson in How Do You Know. Terrible movie, excellent usable line.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    Yeah that’s my thinking, I’d have to see what Ebert thought about How Do You Know but I presume he gave it a marginal thumbs up because it’s a smart movie for adults

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  • The D.C. Universe @dcuniverse.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    I wonder who the biggest victim of Ella McCay bombing is: A) James L. Brooks, who has almost certainly directed his last film. It took Hollywood 15 years to forgive him for How Do You Know, and he’s 85, so… B) Emma Mackey, who will have strangers calling her Ella McCay for the rest of her life.

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  • Conor O'Donnell @codonnell.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    As one of the apparently 4 people who think ELLA MCCAY is just a nice film. This was a great episode to prep for. Highlights include us parsing out exactly how to say HOW DO YOU KNOW. and marveling at the cultural staying power of the SPANGLISH sandwich.

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  • Rob Dunson, Collateral Beautician @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    love when this happens apologies for how long this list is Monster-in-Law Hitch Film Socialisme (yes I know I know) Hi, Mom Star Trek 5 Naqoyqatsi Nomads How Do You Know Singles The Fantastic Four ('94) The Ridiculous 6 RV After Earth Yoga Hosers Marty Supreme Yesterday Lovers Rock Halloween Ends

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  • Alexander B @sinistralg.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    when i was 14 i saw the movie How Do You Know in theaters and i think it was the first time i hated a movie

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  • Kelly @khooliha.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2026

    They are showing a short film called How Do You Know You're In Love

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  • Chris Elena @chriselena.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2026

    As a gigantic How Do You Know? lover and the biggest defender of misunderstood weak spots in illustrious filmographies - I found the whole film utterly baffling. Almost every single choice.

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  • 🎃 Return of the Living Jacob, Father of Beefcake🎃 @fatherofbeefcake.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    30 Day Film Challenge. Day 14: A movie that you saw on a first date. How Do You Know? (2010). @motherofbeefcake.bsky.social and I were making out through most of it and I don't remember a single thing about what I did see.

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  • shrynai.bsky.social @shrynai.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2026

    The film is the replica reading "How Do You Know It's Love?" Every word of the analysis is the model's own, not a frontier AI. He gave us his scholarship and had no hand in the film. You can watch it and ask it your own questions: bamberg.shryn.ai/love

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  • Jason Overbeck @bentclouds.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    Public service announcement that these HOW DO YOU KNOW movie promo shirts are on eBay very inexpensively.

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  • Chromaji 🐉 @shuruzy.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE TRIP AND ERA FILM.... CLASSIFIED INFO....

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  • liprap @liprap.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    How Do You Know? is such a bizarre set piece of a film. It makes a weird sort of sense that James L. Brooks is behind it. youtu.be/EOwmzfyF1oM?...

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  • Joe Paulson @joepaulson2.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    Multiple picks of the #4 Indy Jones movie. It was not very good, but it's the fourth film. It's like the fourth of Die Hard. Eh. I wasn't pissed, but "How Do You Know" (Nicholson's last film) was pretty bad. Ditto one of Downey Jr's Holmes films.

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  • biliousbetil.bsky.social @biliousbetil.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    The poor reviews didn't put me off James L. Brooks' Ella McCay. After all, How Do You Know reviews were almost as bad, and it's a personal favorite. This time the critics are right. This is a bad film!

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  • Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @indiegeniusMastodon · Dec 14, 2025

    Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #EllaMcCay #JamesLBrooks #HowDoYouKnow 4 James L. Brooks Movies That Feel Like Hell on Earth http://dlvr.it/TPpQdr

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  • General Ursus @general-ursus.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    Not a surprise to anyone who saw his abysmal 'How Do You Know', but James L. Brooks 'Ella McCay' is battling with Rob Reiner's Spinal Tap sequel as the year's most unnecessary film by a director who peaked last century.

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  • Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @indiegeniusMastodon · Oct 18, 2025

    Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #AngerManagement #HowDoYouKnow 10 Worst Jack Nicholson Movies, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TNlnk3

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  • Kamurai @KamuraiTMDB reviews · Jul 22, 2020

    Boring watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend. Paul Rudd (especially) and Jack Nicholson are actors I would use as a barometer for movie quality, and even Reese Witherspoon (even though I'm not a big fan) usually is in quality movies, but this is just such a dud. It's the rom com equivalent to watching paint dry. Everything about it draws enormous attention to what you would expect to be happening and not doing it. Trust me, I understand that subversion of expectation is comedy, but…

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