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`The Ex'.

The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO)

| May 08, 2007 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Robert W. Butler

The tepid comedy "The Ex" is noteworthy mostly for assembling a killer cast of players and then doing hardly anything with them.

Tom (Zach Braff in full "Scrubs" mode) is a loveable slacker who can't keep a job _ mostly because he cannot abide the b.s. endemic to the modern workplace. He has survived thus far because his wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) is a well-paid Manhattan lawyer.

But now they're expecting and Tom has promised that he'll step up so that Sofia can be a stay-at-home mom. This necessitates their moving to Sofia's hometown in Ohio, where Tom has been offered a job in his father-in-law's ad agency.

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