What are the odds that a stridently commitment-phobic freelance writer would wind up editing -- wait for it -- a wedding magazine? Pretty good, if she's living inside this heroically contrived romantic comedy.

Pippa McGee (Heather Graham) is a globe-trotting excitement junkie, but during a trip home to Toronto, she finds her publishing magnate father (Bruce Gray) sprawled out in the living room after a heart attack. He's OK -- phew! -- but Pippa wants to help out, and volunteers to run bridal tome Wedding Bells in his absence.

It's time for those of you playing at home to pull out your modern rom-com checklist. Pippa's wacky female friends (check) think it's gonna work out, and her go-girl gay assistant (check) is on board, but her tenure is soon fraught with predictable peril: her ideas are too "highbrow" and nobody "gets" her (check and check). It's all very sad, until Pippa falls for straight-arrow company man Ian (David Sutcliffe) and realizes that true love may not be a hopeless illusion (check and mate).