Cera plays Nick O’Leary, a quiet, yet witty band musician eccentric who is struggling to get over a break-up with his recent ex-girlfriend, Tris (Alexis Dziena) when he is asked by Norah Silverberg (Dennings), an enemy of his ex, to be her boyfriend for 5 minutes.
What was anticipated by Norah to be a fake kiss, generates sparks on both sides, making Tris jealous, and convincing his friend Tom (Aaron Yoo – The Wackness) and fellow band-mates that Norah is the perfect girl to set Nick on the right track away from his dysfunctional emotional attachment to his flaky ex.
Manipulated into a first date, Nick and Norah head down a rough road of first date-like moments after leaving the bar together only to annoy each other and decide to end their evening together early, then be brought back together for a wild goose chase of driving around the streets of New York City looking for Norah’s drunken girlfriend.
Being characterized as a comedy, Nick and Norah’s certainly has its fair share of laugh out loud moments derived from the wit of Cera and Dennings in a Juno-esque kind of way, yet the charm of a cute teenage romance in the making creeps up in the midst of the film, making it one of the films of its genre to have staying power as a potential cult classic.
