Or maybe not

Definitely, Maybe demands far too much from a little actress | Meghan Keane

Universal Pictures

Poor Abigail Breslin. The pint-sized actress is so preternaturally self-possessed that she keeps getting put in onscreen situations outside her age range. In Little Miss Sunshine she did a striptease routine, and now in Definitely, Maybe she is exposed to her onscreen father's sexploits and misadventures in the name of romantic comedy.

The film is often adept and surprisingly funny, but it loses charm points for a plot that shadows the NBC series How I Met Your Mother and for its inability to screen adult content in front of its young protagonist.

Definitely, Maybe (rated PG-13 for sexual content and language) begins with Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) getting served divorce papers and picking up his 10-year-old daughter Maya (Breslin) from school to find that she has been exposed to sex education.