出版社「パンドラ書房」販売促進部に勤務する木下凛は、友人・渡辺美帆の離婚式に同じく友人の相沢奈々子と出席した際、松本直哉・槙野駿平・多田耕太の3人に出会う。凛は、8年前のある出来事をきっかけに、恋愛から遠ざかってしまった、恋愛ニートだった。そのため、職場でも上司や部下から敬遠され、家庭でも弟たちのために懸命に努めようとするも、どこか距離が生じていた。そんな凛を見て、パンドラ書房の社長・雨宮博美は、直哉たちに凛と交際をするよう頼む。実は彼らも様々な理由から、恋愛から遠ざかっていた男たちだった。初めは彼らからのアプローチに辟易していた凛だったが、伊藤雅人との関係が白紙になった菜々子との会話を通し、もう一度恋愛と向き合おうとする。
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_**Comedic road flick about a Trucker’s final run with Henry Fonda**_ A dying trucker (Henry Fonda) throws caution to the wind by stealing back his repossessed semi and venturing his last haul across the country with a Bible-spouting sidekick (Robert Englund), a madam (Eileen Brennan) and her six girls. "The Great Smokey Roadblock" (1977) was originally titled “The Last of the Cowboys” and was presumably changed to take advantage of the success of “Smokey and the Bandit.” While this one focuses on a trucker and a band of prostitutes, it’s just as entertaining as that more popular road farce and maybe a smidgen more. The movie repeatedly points out that Fonda’s character is 60 years old, but he was actually 71 during filming and looked it. Don’t get me wrong, he looked good for his age and had his usual charisma, but he didn’t look 60, unless he had lived a very hard life. Curvy Daina House is the highlight on the feminine front, but I strangely found grumpy Alice (Mews Small) notable too. Susan Sarandon is also on hand before she made it big. Actually the entire female cast is entertaining because they’re fleshed out as individuals. The geography is disingenuous as Northern California is passed off for places like Missouri, the Smokey Mountains and the Carolina coast. Yet even big budget movies back then did this, let alone small flicks like this one. The film runs 1 hour, 44 minutes, and was shot in Oroville, California. GRADE: B-
