Parker calls it "the first grown-up film that I'd done."

And it was only the second 'grown-up' film I'd ever been to see.

What is a "grown-up film for grown-up people"?

This is a grown-up film that delights in undermining Christmas cliches.

Their company, Phoenix Pictures, invests in and produces what Mr. Medavoy calls grown-up films by directors he has known and worked with for years.

The result is that studios and independent companies are seeking elbow room for grown-up films amid the outpouring of action fantasies.

Those films, which will be opening in the next few weeks, are the summer's first "grown-up" films.

Last week Donald DeLine, president of Touchstone Pictures, the Disney unit that makes grown-up films, said he would leave the studio after 13 years there.

Mr. Roth and Mr. DeLine have been working on several grown-up films.

"Just My Luck" is being promoted as her first grown-up film, but it's nothing like that.