Softball player Lisa Jorgenson begins dating Matty Reynolds, a pitcher for the Washington Nationals.

Life takes an abrupt turn for the worse for George when he suddenly finds himself the target of a federal criminal investigation for corporate malfeasance at a company run by his father, Charles Madison.

It turns out to be a disaster; he is so overwhelmed with his troubles that she eventually asks that they just eat in silence, and they part ways not expecting to see one another again.

Matty is rich, well-meaning, and fun, but is also immature and insensitive, and continues to have casual affairs with other women.

Matty inadvertently offends her, so Lisa moves out and spends a pleasant, tipsy evening at George's modest new apartment.

On the night Annie's baby is born and her boyfriend proposes, Lisa begins to reconsider her previous reluctance to settle down.

At a birthday party that Matty throws for Lisa, George confesses his feelings for her and asks her to meet him downstairs if she decides she reciprocates them.

While interviewing numerous women for hundreds of hours in his research for the film, he also became interested in "the dilemmas of contemporary business executives, who are sometimes held accountable by the law for corporate behavior of which they may not even be aware."

How Do You Know opened at $7.6 million in the United States and Canada, making it eighth at the box office on its first weekend.

5 behind Tron: Legacy, Yogi Bear, The Fighter and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

The site's critical consensus reads: "How Do You Know boasts a quartet of likable leads—and they deserve better than this glib, overlong misfire from writer/director James L.

[12] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave it a mixed review, and called it "A low-impact romantic comedy-drama from James L. Brooks in which the central characters are strangely disconnected from one another as well as from the audience.

When your latest romantic comedy looks like TV, feels like greeting-card poetry, and sounds like a self-help manual.