Directed by: Elise Duran
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Tyler Hoechlin, Laverne Cox, Robert King, Sunita Mani, Kimiko Glenn, David Ebert
Can You Keep a Secret? isn't the worst of romcoms. It is serviceable, understands the assignment, and doesn't aspire to be anything greater. Its leads are appealing enough to carry it, but it refuses to ascend into greatness. It's decently entertaining, predictable, and it's happy to be just that.
Can You Keep a Secret? stars Alexandra Daddario as Emma, who works as a junior sales executive in a boutique New York marketing company small enough to keep all of its employees in one room, so they'd be able to stay within shouting distance of one another and keep up with everyone else's business. Emma is returning on a flight from a disastrous business meeting when the plane experiences heavy turbulence. Fearful that she will die, she confesses all of her secrets to the handsome guy next to her named Jack (Hoechlin). These are more like things she wished she was more honest about, such as how she and her boyfriend have no sexual chemistry, or whenever her office buddy asks her to "look at numbers" then that means they play hooky from the office for a while.
Emma's embarrassment soon grows the next morning when she learns the man she confessed to is in fact her company's new CEO. She can barely face him and he amusingly asks her about co-workers just to watch her squirm and lie about them while he knows the truth. Nonetheless, Jack finds Emma attractive, and it's not hard to see why. She has a sunny smile and general attractiveness plus a boyfriend who is a nice enough guy but only exists to be dumped. Emma and Jack then get together, break up over a misunderstanding, and then reconcile. It's all part of the formula. Jack has secrets of his own, but not what you think, and they're pretty innocuous, much like the movie itself.
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