They take a very specific couple and make them universal. It could be a primer on what couple's therapy is about, how it works and how the results won't always be life-changing breakthroughs -- at least not right away.

Bits and pieces of films that were big and those expected to be big paled next to the high point of the day, the first outside-the-studio showing of the Disney-Pixar Toy Story 3.

How do we keep building on the success of 2009 when there won't be any big movies directed by women?

It's exactly the kind of middlebrow entertainment that attracts people who no longer go to movies -- because it seems like the kind of movie they no longer make.