George Hanson (Paul Rudd) is at a dinner party when he learns from a total stranger (Jennifer Aniston) that he's about to be dumped. Fortunately, Nina Borowski is sympathetic, even offering him the spare room in her Brooklyn apartment. So when his handsome boyfriend, a college professor named Dr. Joley (Tim Daly) hesitantly admits that their relationship is over, George accepts Nina's generous invitation-and the most important relationship of their lives begins.

In the months that follow, Nina and George will become the best of friends · family-a fact which is mildly unsettling to her devoted boyfriend Vince (John Pankow). But what disturbs the hard-driving civil liberties lawyer even more is Nina's announcement that she is pregnant, and she wants to raise the baby with her gay roommate instead of him.

Nicholas Hytner directs THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION, an unconventional romantic comedy that pushes the tender lines between love, sex and friendship.