The girl-buddy slapstick comedy about one woman's dogged pursuit of Mr. Right was penned by South Park scribe Nancy Pimental and directed by Roger Kumble (Cruel Intentions), who encouraged his cast to push the limits of the script.

"What was wonderful about our director was that he would let us just go as long as we wanted to go with something," says Applegate. "There was a lot of ad-libbing; there's something in every scene. I think that I drove the script supervisor completely mad because I was always adding something, changing something."

While Diaz's character in the film eyes her true love in a club, Applegate allows that it's an unlikely scenario. "You can go to a club to find somebody for that moment, but I don't think you go to a club to find your husband," she says. "Before I met my husband, the singles scene, the dating scene...it just makes me want to vomit. It's so horribly lonely. I really didn't like it. But you have to go through a bunch of turkeys in order to find the right one."