Foul-mouthed writer-director Kevin Smith (Dogma) aims for the smart sentimentality of something like About a Boy with this unfairly dismissed byproduct of the Bennifer saga (Jennifer Lopez appears only briefly). Surprisingly, Smith hits that elusive mark more often than he misses. Ben Affleck plays a single dad struggling to balance his career as a high-profile entertainment publicist with his responsibilities to his young daughter (Raquel Castro). Whenever this threatens to turn into One Ben and a Baby, Smith saves it with a good gag or clever line.
