


Six weeks later, before her sister's wedding, Emma realizes she wants to be with Adam, and drives over to his place at night, only to see Adam and his colleague Lucy ( Lake Bell), mistaking her for his girlfriend. He asks her for one single date on Valentine's Day, and it seems perfect till she awkwardly tells him she will not engage in an emotional relationship. Disgusted, Adam walks out, and Emma defends him. On Adam's birthday, his father tells him he wishes to have children with Vanessa. She drunkenly crashes at his place, and they sleep together again. She feels awkward and thus ends their arrangement, only to end up missing him. Soon, Adam finds himself getting jealous of Emma's co-worker Sam ( Ben Lawson), and being an emotional person, he doubles his romantic attempts towards Emma. Before she leaves, they agree to engage in a "no strings attached" relationship, where they just have sex.

She leads him to her room to find his pants, and they have sex. The next morning, he wakes up on Emma's couch, encountering Emma's friends and colleagues who tease him and tell him that he was crying and passed out naked on the couch. Devastated, he gets drunk and calls all his female contacts to hook up. Soon, Adam finds out that his father Alvin ( Kevin Kline), the well-known star of a former hit television comedy series, has begun a romance with his ex-girlfriend, Vanessa ( Ophelia Lovibond). Emma is a doctor in Los Angeles, and Adam is a production assistant for a musical television show. After first meeting at a summer camp as teenagers, Emma Kurtzman ( Natalie Portman) and Adam Franklin ( Ashton Kutcher) run into each other a few times as young adults but never keep in touch.
