Outsourced

Smart and charming.

Josh Hamilton gives a marvelously engaging performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy.

Outsourced is not a great movie, and maybe couldn't be this charming if it was. It is a film bursting with affection for its characters and for India.

In its modest way, Outsourced may be unique: a charming culture-clash romance that could be taught in business schools.

Outsourced has all the charm and color of its made-in-India locations, yet it's crafted--well crafted--according to familiar Hollywood convention.

Its head may be in the sand, but Outsourced is a good-spirited idyll, an escape from reality, naive to a fault, and all but unconcerned with the troubles of the world but almost -- almost -- convincing in its innocence.

It is not giving away much to say that everything ends as expected, just not soon enough.