Knocked Up
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The Love Guru and Get Smart, both of which open today, aren't just comedies that make us laugh for various scenes and one-liners.

The mismatched pairing of main characters - characters played by Jessica Alba and Mike Myers in the former; Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell in the latter - is also good for a chuckle.

With that in mind, the Reel Movie News staff wondered about the three most unexpected couples in cinematic history. A trio of contenders follows...

American Pie: Jim and Nadia.

There's Something About Mary: Ted and Mary.

Knocked Up: Ben and Alison.

A Canadian author is suing Universal Pictures and director Judd Apatow, alleging that the story for the hit movie Knocked Up was taken directly from her book of the same name.

Rebecca Eckler claims that she shopped around her 2004 book to be made into a movie. In the middle of the process, she learned of the Apatow project. The script that was making the rounds, she alleges, had a picture of a martini glass with a pacifier around the stem - the same as on the cover of her book.

Eckler, who told her tale in this month's Maclean's magazine, cites other similarities - including the fact that the Katherine Heigl character is an up-and-coming television reporter, and the main character in Eckler's book is an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. She also says that the movie and book have a secondary female character in common - the person that both main characters go to for advice - and that both of the secondary characters have screaming children.

The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in January, alleging copyright infringement and seeking unspecified damages.

Judd Apatow, through his reps, released this statement:

"The book 'Knocked Up' is very different than the film Knocked Up. The book is about a woman who gets pregnant by the fiance that she loves on the night of her engagement party. The film is a very different story; the film is about a one-night stand between a pot smoking slacker and an ambitious young woman that leads to a pregnancy and their attempts to get to know each other. Anyone who reads the book and sees the movie will instantly know that they are two very different stories about a common experience."

By now, you've probably heard a lot about this summer's supposedly best comedy, Knocked Up. But what is it actually about?

Here's a summary:

Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is on the fast track for a promising career as an entertainment journalist. Her big plans get a little messed up, though, after a one-night stand with a total slacker (Seth Rogen) gets her pregnant. Although she has the determination to be a successful working single mom, Allison tries to involve her baby's daddy in her life, but he may turn out to be a little too immature to handle fatherhood

It's rumored to be the next great comedy. This summer's The 40-Year Old Virgin or Wedding Crashers.

So we figured the earlier we could post photos of Knocked Up for readers to enjoy, the more excited you'll get for the movie to hit theaters on June 1.

With that in mind, try not to at least smile at these pictures of the film's stars, Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen: