“Advance And Retreat” (** out of four) was a thoroughly predictable romantic comedy about a yuppie executive (Riley Voelkel) who reconnects with an old flame (Casey Diedrick) who now owns the summer camp where they originally met and rediscovers that (shucks) she misses him and misses her old life. Quite a change of pace from the director of “I Spit On Your Grave” (both 1 and 2) but this feels like warmed-over Nicholas Sparks, without his spark or conviction. Voelkel’s sincere performance is just about all that keeps this afloat.

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