Just right for the role of Fritz, Grady’s playboy friend from childhood and keeper of his secrets, is Timothy Olyphant, who currently stars as Marshal Seth Bullock on HBO’s “Deadwood.” “I like complicated characters,” says the actor. “It’s always fun when you have a number of different angles. It frees you up to try different things from moment to moment.”
“Fritz shows up in Boulder – this small town – from L.A. and doesn’t fit in, but never leaves,” says Olyphant. “He consistently does the wrong thing, but seems oblivious to how others see him. Still, as Gray learns more about her fiancé, she learns more about Fritz as well.”
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Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) thought she had life all figured out: the perfect job, the perfect city (Boulder, Colorado), and best of all, Grady, the perfect fiancé. However, in life, nothing is perfect: the day that was supposed to be their wedding day instead becomes Grady's funeral. At the memorial, Gray is comforted by Grady's closest friends: cheerful Sam (Kevin Smith) and responsible Dennis (Sam Jaeger). When she leaves the reception for a few minutes alone, her private moment is interrupted as Grady's childhood buddy from L.A., Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), bursts in and, thinking the room is empty, seduces the event caterer.
Gray, justifiably piqued, blurts, "How could he have been friends with you? You're everything he hated." After the memorial, Gray realizes that she can no longer afford the house she and Grady rented. Sam and Dennis take her in, feeling a responsibility to take care of their pal's fiancé... but to Gray's chagrin, she finds that the boys have also offered a bed to Fritz.
As Gray closes Grady's accounts, she finds one she never knew existed: a large one - containing about a million dollars. Grady was loaded... but that wasn't the only secret Grady kept from his fiancé. He was also sending the interest on that account - $3,000 a month - to a woman in L.A. Gray manages to pull the details out of Fritz: Grady had a one-time affair, before he met Gray, with a massage therapist named Maureen. The result of that one night, says Fritz, is a seven-year-old boy named Mattie. Gray is devastated to learn that Grady never trusted her enough to tell her about his son.
This film has been rated RATED PG-13 by the MPAA for sexual content, language and some drug use
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