
Halley is a young high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing the many dysfunctional relationships around her. Her parents are now divorced and her father has a new young girlfriend she doesn't care for too much. Her mother is now always alone; and her sister is so overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding that she barely leaves the house anymore. On top of that, the shallowness of all the girls and guys at her school convinces Halley that finding true love is i... (Full plot summary below)
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Halley is a young high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing the many dysfunctional relationships around her. Her parents are now divorced and her father has a new young girlfriend she doesn't care for too much. Her mother is now always alone; and her sister is so overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding that she barely leaves the house anymore. On top of that, the shallowness of all the girls and guys at her school convinces Halley that finding true love is impossible. A tragic accident, however, leads her to meeting Macon, and suddenly Halley finds that true love can occur under unusual circumstances.
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| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford"How to Deal" is a random assemblage of contrary situations, hoary marital comedy cliches and out-of-left-field teen melodrama. |
| Houston ChronicleBruce WestbrookHow to Deal is a 'dramady' of a film, with first-time director Clare Kilner fighting valiantly to balance its heaviness with humor. Though it's no Terms of Endearment, she pulls it off. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekServes up a losing hand of mawkish melodrama, cheap humor and insipid romance. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachThere's pleasure to be had in a film that suggests teen life can be hard without necessarily being tragic. |
| Critic DoctorPeter SobczynskiAfter a summer filled with robots, explosions, car crashes, fart jokes and lazy-eyed skanks battling Demi Moore, here is a simple, unassuming film that actually dares to include the human element into the mix. |
| Dallas Morning NewsMatt WeitzRequire[s] only the presence of Scott Baio to qualify as fodder for an after-school special. |
| State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)Paul PovseIn its non-hysterical depiction of the fog of personal relationship wars, the movie gently makes the point that, yeah, it really is a wild world out there. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionEleanor Ringel CaterA much better deal than you're probably expecting. |
| Chicago TribuneEllen FoxThis is a movie whose title promises to show teenage viewers how to cope with the messed-up, grown-up world they are entering, not how to make it perfect -- or even how to make sense of it. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionEleanor Ringel GillespieA much better deal than you're probably expecting. |