Polyamorous Vulpine

That would be the 2010 film starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Not a huge fan of either actor or actress, it didn't snag my attention until I kept catching glimpses of it on a hotel TV during vacation.

It was actually really fun. It was energetic and tongue in cheek and nobody took themselves too seriously. You got the sense that the writers really liked their characters, and the story they were telling, and it leaked through. June was naive and out of her depth and freaked out but also super-competent and full of energy and resilient, and never chided by the narrative when she messed up or got swayed by foes. Though Roy, Tom Cruise's spy character, was extremely good at what he did as a matter of course, he wasn't played as super dramatically smooth or dramatic; he was not a James Bond. He was kind of hilariously off-kilter, eccentric and most often sweet in a vaguely creepy way (which June responded to appropriately with hilarious faces.) Also he had the best response to an earnest sexual proposition I've heard in ages.

All in all, it was a good send-off, a light fun action flick that was funny and actually pretty sweet, not requiring us to use our brains too much on an exhausting evening after a day spent preparing for half of our family to suddenly have to leave the state.

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