How to Be Single is a 2016 American romantic comedy film directed by Christian Ditter and written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, based on the novel of the same name by Liz Tuccillo. Starring Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, and Leslie Mann, the film was released on February 12, 2016, by Warner Bros. Pictures.Alice (Dakota Johnson) temporarily dumps her college boyfriend Josh (Nicholas Braun) and moves to New York City to be a paralegal. She moves in with her sister, Meg (Leslie Mann) an OB/GYN who refuses to have a baby or any form of relationship. Alice befriends wild co-worker Robin (Rebel Wilson) who enjoys partying and one-night stands. Robin introduces her to Tom (Anders Holm), a bartender who has willfully embraced the bachelor lifestyle and enjoys numerous casual hookups.
Tom meets Lucy (Alison Brie) at his bar when she uses his wifi for free. She explains she is looking for The One using a detailed algorithm on various dating sites. Tome brushes it off and try to explain her maths will not bring her the relationship she wants.
Alice sleeps with Tom, who explains to her his desire for strictly casual relations with women and shows her the measures he takes to avoid commitment. He fist-bumps her as she leaves.
Alice meets with Josh at a pancake restaurant to tell him she is "done" with their break and is ready to get back together. Josh explains that they can't get back together because he is seeing someone else, which distresses and upsets Alice.
Meanwhile, Meg, who previously decided she did not want to pursue relationships or have children, has a change of heart and decides to have a child via sperm donor. The first in- vitro attempt fails. She starts dating Ken (Jake Lacy) shortly after learning the second IVF attempt was successful, and she hides the pregnancy from him.
Back at Tom's bar, Lucy has a string of bad dates with men she met on dating websites. Tom witnesses all of them and begins to feel despondent and jealous, leading him to realize he has an emotional attraction to Lucy.
As her sister kindles her own relationship and goes through her pregnancy, Alice continues to pine after Josh. In an attempt to "put herself out there" she attends a Wesleyan alumni networking event, where she briefly converses with a man named David (Damon Wayans Jr).
Lucy, having been in a relationship for three weeks with a man named Paul, goes to Grand Central to send him off to the train. Paul reveals that he has been seeing other people, thinking she was doing the same, and breaks up with her. Lucy is extremely agitated and breaks down at her volunteer job reading stories to children, regaling the children with tales about princes who leave princesses and starts trying to cut her Spanx off her body with child-safety scissors. George (Jason Mantzoukas), who works at the bookstore, soothes her and the two start dating.
Alice and Robin attend Josh's winter holiday party, and as Alice watches Josh dance with and kiss his new girlfriend, Michelle, she becomes melancholic and leaves the party to look at the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Walking down the street, she runs into David, the man she met from the networking event. She invites him to go look at the tree with her, but in reply David says he has to show her something. They go to an empty building under construction, which David reveals to have a striking window view of the Christmas tree. Dazzled, Alice thanks him and they begin a relationship. Three months later, as she is singing with David's daughter, Phoebe, David becomes upset and asks Alice what she's doing, reminding her sternly that she's "not Phoebe's mother". Confused, she says she didn't mean to upset him and asks why he's so closed off, particularly about Phoebe's mother. The two break up.
Alice decides to embrace her singleness and makes adjustments to her daily life. On St Patrick's Day, she bumps into Josh and his parents outside the pancake restaurant, and he appears disturbed to see her there. They take a group selfie that Josh sends later to Alice and says he misses her. Lucy comes to Tom's bar and shows him the swanky outfit she got for herself to share with George. Tom is visibly upset. He invites Alice to get drunk. The two talk about their frustrations with their feelings for Josh and Lucy and end up sleeping together in an attempt to distract themselves. They fist-bump as Alice leaves.
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