Playing It Cool is a 2014 American romantic comedy film directed by Justin Reardon and written by Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair.

Due to mother abandonment issues from his childhood, he doesn't let love in or believe in it, so finds writing about romance difficult.

So, he constantly hooks up and then says he doesn’t see a future with them Then Me meets Her at a charity event, bantering together with ease.

His misfit group of friends are all writers: Lyle is prolific yet still unpublished, Samson is a married graphic novelist, Mallory writes and performs one woman shows she makes them attend and of course Scott.

After a plethora of events, he is embarrassed at one when the host puts Me on the spot to talk about works that he has previously bragged (lied) about.

Chatting in a café, he asks her about ‘Stuffy.’ She describes him as stable, safe and liked by her family and friends.

A night of binging, followed by making a fool of himself at her apartment and his granddad dying, gets Me back on track.

After a flight, cliché run through an airport and a taxi ride, and checking all of the heart sculptures, Me finds Her.

The script for the film was originally titled A Many Splintered Thing and was first on The Black List and was a 2011 finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship.

[4] On November 5, 2014 it was announced Vertical Entertainment had acquired US distribution rights for the film with a planned 2015 release.

The website's consensus reads: "Playing It Cool pits Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan's easy chemistry against a screenplay that tries too hard to be quirky and clever, and the results are disappointingly lukewarm.

"[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 30 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.