HOW TO BE SINGLE (15 )110 mins. Starring Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie and Leslie Mann.

LOOKING for love, companionship or a welcoming port in a carnal storm couldn't be simpler in a 24-hour digital age of competing apps and online dating services.

Based on the book of the same name by Liz Tucillo, Christian Ditter's raucous comedy drama follows a group of hapless and hopeless romantics in New York City as they stumble between one-night stands, missed opportunities and chance liaisons.

It's a glossy and sporadically hilarious portrait of sleeping around in the city that never sleeps, populated by attractive and wealthy people who spend the best part of two hours vacillating about affairs of the heart when common sense dictates they would be inundated with offers.

Perky heroine Alice (Dakota Johnson) meets her boyfriend Josh (Nicholas Braun) at college, but worries that the relationship has curtailed her journey of self-discovery.

"We need to know what it's like to be single... at least once," she tells her heartbroken beau, enforcing their temporary separation by moving to the Big Apple, where she crashes with her sister Meg (Leslie Mann), a pediatric doctor immune to the charms of gurgling toddlers.

How To Be Single stomps over similar ground to the 2009 romcom He's Just Not That Into You, also based on a book by Tucillo, and is peppered with the usual array of heartbreaks and gushing declarations, underscored by a toe-tapping soundtrack of Taylor Swift, Guns N' Roses and Avicii.