Divorced and dateless for two years, 37-year-old Sarah Hurlihy (Diane Lane – Unfaithful, The Perfect Storm) sets out to change her single status when she bravely answers an online Personals ad. Instead of Mr. Right, Sarah experiences the ultimate nightmare when her would-be date turns out to be her widower father (Christopher Plummer – The Insider)!

Sarah’s sister Carol (Elizabeth Perkins – The Ring Two) convinces Sarah to post her own ad and include the words “Must Love Dogs,” although Sarah does not own a dog. The posting produces many responses, forcing Sarah to borrow her brother’s dog, Mother Teresa. Now Sarah is juggling her job as a preschool teacher, her interfering family, and more men than she can handle. But can Sarah’s family back off long enough to avoid scaring all of these men away in the charming romantic comedy Must Love Dogs?

More About John Cusack (courtesy of Biography.com):

In 1990, John Cusack won his first mature role in The Grifters, where he played a small-time hustler caught between the attention of two rival women played by Angelica Houston and Annette Benning, who each received Oscar nominations for their performances. In 1997, after a series of dramatic and comedic roles in the mid-’90s, Cusack co-produced, co-wrote and starred in Grosse Point Blank opposite Minnie Driver. The darkly comedic film received wide critical acclaim.Other Cusack films have included Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Pushing Tin and Being John Malkovich. In 2000, he co-produced and starred in the winning adaptation of Nick Hornby’s cult novel High Fidelity. In 2001, he reprised his role as the thwarted, but earnest, lover in the romantic comedies Serendipity and America’s Sweethearts. Cusack received stronger feedback for his 2003 horror film Identity.

Continuing to take on an interesting mix of projects, Cusack went on to appear in the romantic comedy Must Love Dogs (2005) with Diane Lane, the hotel horror film 1408 (2006) with Samuel L. Jackson and the political satire War, Inc. (2008). Teaming up with Rob Corddry and Craig Robinson, Cusack starred in the 2010 buddy comedy Hot Tub Time Machine.

More recently, Cusack took on one of literature’s most famous figures by playing Edgar Allan Poe in 2012’s The Raven. He then portrayed one of America’s most infamous presidents, Richard M. Nixon, in Lee Daniels’ The Butler the following year. Cusack also played an older version of musical genius Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2015).