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Douglas McGrathScreenplay:
Aline Brosh McKennaCinematography:
Stuart DryburghCast:
Sarah Jessica Parker, Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn, Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer, Greg Kinnear, Jane Curtin, Jessica Szohr, Busy Philipps, Seth Meyers (more)VOD (2)
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Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) and their two young children. It’s a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate’s acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison (Christina Hendricks) performs on a daily basis, and that Kate’s super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo (Olivia Munn) fully intends to avoid. When Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, Richard also wins the new job he’s been hoping for - and both will be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate’s charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan), who begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation. (Entertainment in Video)
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I don’t like Sarah Jessica Parker, I’ll admit that straight away. I didn’t expect much from this film, but I thought it might be a decent watch for a Monday evening with my girlfriend—a bit of romance, a bit of humor. Oh, how wrong I was. Picture Sarah as a working mother who can’t manage anything because she has a job and kids, and that’s just too much for an American woman. That’s the whole plot—balancing work and family. When I think about how my mom managed everything, how she’d come home from work and still take care of all of us without ever looking tired, always well-groomed and never appearing unkempt, I realize that this entire film is just one big case of nonsense. It’s about a poor little woman who doesn’t have time to bake a pie for her kid’s school event—because, let’s be honest, we don’t know how to do that anyway—but somehow, she’s always overwhelmed. You barely see her working, yet she’s perpetually exhausted. You don’t believe Sarah in her role, maybe because you have her typecast as her Sex and the City character, or maybe because she simply can’t act. I almost felt that next to her, Jennifer Aniston is an acting queen. Unfortunately, it’s not just her dragging the film down to the depths next to the Titanic—where, unlike the grand ship, it will remain forever. The main issue is the script, which is full of tired clichés and plotlines that are drowned in boredom. There isn’t a single decent joke. And even if there were, it wouldn’t be delivered well. Pierce Brosnan won't offend you, but Greg Kinnear wastes his talent in such nonsense. The attempt to add a touch of Bridget Jones’s Diary style doesn’t work. It’s a terrible, seriously terrible film that left me cringing.
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A romantic comedy about the hectic life of an emancipated mother, in which there is darn little romance and humor, leaving the viewer to search for it with a microscope. Not to mention all that baggage around makes most women seem like annoying twits, which probably doesn't thrill many guys. (40%)
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