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1. The film opens with a montage of scenes showing intimate moments from the personal and professional lives of married couple Nicole and Charlie, as they narrate from a list each has compiled, describing all the things they love about the other. Why have Nicole and Charlie written these lists?
2. Nicole travels home to Los Angeles to film a television pilot. While at the studio for a hair and make-up test, she gets a recommendation from Carol, one of the female producers on the show. What does Carol recommend to Nicole?
3. Nicole serves Charlie with divorce papers when he visits her and their son, Henry, in Los Angeles, setting up a cross country fight that pits West Coast sensibilities against East Coast attitudes. Which city did Charlie and Nicole spend the first 10 years of their marriage in?
4. Charlie delays hiring a lawyer and then has to retain one on short notice when he goes out to LA again to see Henry for Halloween. His mother-in-law refers Charlie to Bert Spitz, an entertainment lawyer turned family law practitioner. What makes Charlie hire Bert?
5. Nicole and Charlie attend their first settlement meeting with their lawyers in tow. The session takes on a slightly surreal quality when the lawyers switch effortlessly from lobbing devastating salvos at each other to casually ordering lunch. What does Nicole order for Charlie?
6. Bert advises Charlie to reach a settlement with Nicole to avoid going to court, but Charlie remains hung up on one key issue involving Henry. What does Charlie not want to concede to Nicole?
7. Nicole and Charlie attend court, where the judge records the settlement they have reached and makes their divorce official. It is amicable and very civilized.
8. Nicole visits Charlie in his apartment to talk things through, but matters eventually escalate into an all-out argument. What does Charlie say to Nicole that he immediately regrets?
9. The court-appointed evaluator visits Charlie and Henry, and the evaluation proceeds as smoothly as can be expected, until an unexpected turn of events casts a pall on the evening and cuts the visit short. What happens?
10. A year has passed and it is Halloween again. Charlie spends time with Henry, and goes trick-or-treating with Nicole and her family. At the end of the evening, Nicole lets an exhausted Henry spend an extra night with Charlie, and performs a simple act of love. What does Nicole do for Charlie at the end of the film?
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