This charming, lightweight comedy begins with the last stages of the marriage of a Los Angeles couple aged around 30 – Celeste, a successful "trend predictor", author of a book called "Shitegeist", and Jesse, a feckless graphic designer – who, to the annoyance of all their friends, remain inseparable friends despite their impending divorce. Their relationship as a major social issue or a serious phenomenon is moderately interesting but not enough to sustain a 90-minute movie. It is, however, interesting to compare it with Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage, which touches on similar issues, and with the movies discussed by the Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell in his study of 1930s screwball comedy, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage, one of the best books ever written on American cinema.