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No Strings Attached (2011)

★ 6.3 · 4,972 ratings on TMDB

Friendship has its benefits.

No Strings Attached poster★ 6.3

Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?

DirectorIvan Reitman
CastAshton Kutcher, Cary Elwes, Greta Gerwig, Jake Johnson, Kevin Kline, Lake Bell
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

No Strings Attached keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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