# Help identify this movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie/844378 "2019-12-04T22:11:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie/844378/1 "2019-12-04T22:11:31Z")
Small film, recent-ish, probably around 2011. Basic plot is a single mom raising her teen daughter. The movie opens with the daughter on a jungle gym along with her friend-zoned guy friend. It also may end the same way. The movie is largely from the daughter’s perspective, including narration, but there’s also a fair share from the mom’s point of view. The father is some kind of trucker or oil pipeline worker or whatever where the job keeps him away for months at a time, and of course the marriage is in the toilet because of that. Mom starts dating her boss, I think(?), and that really pisses off the daughter. Dad visits once in his pickup truck, I think the affair with the boss comes to light and then he takes off. That may be his only scene in the movie. Anyway, I randomly thought of the jungle gym opening and it’s been driving me crazy that I can’t remember the movie or any actor in it. I thought the mom was played by Selma Blair, but I don’t see anything on her imdb page that fits. The dad is pretty darn famous, and I can see his face clear as day in my mind but I just can’t come up with the name. He’s maybe Patrick Wilson-level famous. Definitely a leading man for a minute. I thought maybe his name was Scott something, but again no hits on imdb seemed to fit. I’m pretty sure the daughter has become somewhat famous, but I can’t even picture her now. Someone along the lines of Britt Robertson or Olivia Cooke in terms of age and fame level. Please help, it’s driving me crazy! That I can’t remember the dad’s name bothers me; I should know it. And thus this thread. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie/844378/2 "2019-12-04T22:55:00Z")
[As Cool As I Am](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1906329) ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie/844378/3 "2019-12-04T23:06:43Z")
Thank you! James Marsden. I kept thinking he was in a superhero movie, but I kept fixating on the Fantastic Four movies. I knew he wasn’t part of the MCU, but just didn’t think of X-Men. (EDIT: Ha! His name was Scott in X-Men.) Claire Danes, not Selma Blair. I consider that pretty close. Sarah Bolger (the daughter) never did get very famous, but I’m a huge fan. Last time I saw her she was playing the alternate-dimension daughter in [Counterpart](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4643084/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie/844378/4 "2019-12-04T23:11:24Z")
I’ll give you James Marsden too - Scott was his X-Men character. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-movie/844378/5 "2019-12-05T00:00:08Z")
Also Lois Lane’s sad-sack love interest in the 2006 _Superman Returns_ (Brandon Routh’s Superman).