How to Deal is a 2003 film directed by Clare Kilner and starring Mandy Moore, Allison Janney and Trent Ford. It is based on two novels by Sarah Dessen, That Summer and Someone Like You. Halley Marie Martin is a seventeen-year-old high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing many dysfunctional relationships around her. Her parents are now divorced and her father, Len Martin , a radio talk show host, has a new young girlfriend that the entire family despises; mainly because she's the reason for the divorce. Her mother, Lydia , is now always alone while her sister, Ashley, is... so overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding with Louis Worscher that she barely exists in the house anymore. On top of that, the shallowness of all the girls and guys at her school convinces Halley that finding true love is impossible. When Halley walks in on her best friend Scarlett having sex with her boyfriend, the high school soccer champ, Michael Sherwood, Halley tries to warn her of the complications that lie ahead. Ignoring her advice, Scarlett embarks on a summer fling with Michael.
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| Release date: | July 18, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Clare Kilner |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 101 Minutes |
| Producer: | Erica Huggins |
| Screenplay by: | Neena Beber |
| Estimated budget: | $16,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Someone Like You |
| Genre: | Comedy |