Feminist author Barbara Novack (Renee Zelwegger) writes a book about women succeeding without men in 1962, which puts her in the limelight and at odds with playboy journalist Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). He goes undercover as "her type" -- a dorky conservative spaceman -- to reveal her as a softhearted love-mad woman like any other. Mistaken-identities plotting and jabs at the opinions of that bygone era encompass the entire plot.
