Even though Ben Affleck plays a womanizer who can lie and talk his way into and out of anything, he still has a likeable quality in Buddy. Buddy overcomes his alcohol addiction, through treatment, but still has the episode of the airplane crash that he should have been on that haunts him. As with most plots that Hollywood puts out, there is lying involved that always initially gets the character what he or she wants, but then ends up causing all sorts of problems. This film is no exception. The lying in this film is not condoned and there are certainly consequences for them. I just wonder if the same outcome would be achieved if the character told the entire truth to begin with. Oh well, that’s another story that most likely will never get written. In any event, Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow fans will entirely love this film and I suspect they will even create new fans in the process.