Here’s an excerpt from the IMDb plot summary of Employee of the Month starring Dane Cook:
Zack has not won any “Employee of the Month” awards and has no desire to except when Amy, a new cashier who only dates “Employee of the Month” winners, transfers to the store.
Here’s the premise of Good Luck Chuck, also starring Dane Cook:
Stu starts to become convinced that there’s something peculiar about Chuck’s pattern of girls getting married as soon as he has sex with them. This is only compounded when an article on a dating site tells of Chuck’s prowess. Stu eventually convinces Chuck to embrace the (now many) women who visit his practice, arguing that there’s nothing better than having a bunch of guilt-free sex.
And here’s the premise of My Best Friend’s Girl, which also starred Dane Cook:
Dustin, an amiable guy, is in love with Alexis, a coworker. When she tells him she just wants to be friends, he hires his roommate Tank, a fast-talking, amoral scoundrel who has a side business: men whose women have dumped them hire Tank to take their ex-girlfriends out on the date from Hell, to drive the women back into their old boyfriends’ arms.
Each of these movies has a different director and screenwriting team. They came out in 2006, ’07 and ’08, respectively. Aside from overwhelming critical disdain (their combined Metacritic scores don’t even reach 100), the only thing these three films have in common is Dane Cook in a starring role.
At first glance, anyway.