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The archetypal single gal from Sex and the City dives into family life in I Don't Know How She Does It. Kate Reddy, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, could easily be Carrie Bradshaw's alternate life: a rising finance analyst, Kate feels guilty for short-changing her husband (Greg Kinnear) and two children. When she gets the opportunity to work with a high-powered exec (Pierce Brosnan), the already tense family relationship gets stretched to the breaking point and Kate has to make some hard choices. I Don't Know How She Does It is pure formula, but executed well. The entire cast (also including Christina Hendricks as a single-mum best friend, Kelsey Grammer as an overbearing boss, Seth Meyers as a sniping rival, and a scene-stealing Olivia Munn as Kate's assistant) play their parts with skill, while Parker's rapport with Kinnear is particularly warm and persuasive. Moreover, you have to admire the sheer chutzpah of hammering home political points about double standards in the workplace and then delivering a fairy-tale ending. Men have realised the importance of family over work in dozens upon dozens of cookie-cutter heartwarming flicks; apparently it's time that women got the opportunity to do the same. No doubt this signifies some important cultural shift; college theses are waiting to be written about it. --Bret Fetzer
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Kate Reddy (Sex and the City's 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 (Mad Men's 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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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..so disappointing! I was bowled over by the book some years ago; it treated the predicament of the high-powered working mother with sympathetic humour; the film made it all seem a trite joke. Brosnan did his best - probably the best of a bad bunch.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The book was a brilliant read, very funny and a proper page turner. The film was a big disappointment. Sometimes the film makers should leave well alone and stick to the book verbatum.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If you want a film with some substance, a story line or good acting then don't buy this one as it has none of these . Poor acting, no storyline, no substance, just SJP rushing around everywhere making stupid comments ! Just glad I rented this and didn't buy. Rubbish !!
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Light hearted chick flick
" I Don't Know How She Does It" is a likeable enough film featuring an ageing Sarah Jessica Parker as a high flying finance executive who is struggling to balance her work and... Read more
Published 29 days ago by L. Davidson
Fabulous film really funny and addictive to watch.
Fantastic film. I love all SJP films so maybe biased. She is a fab actress and this film is one of her best. It's so funny. Read more
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Nothing special
I wouldn't say the movie was very good. It was okay and I'm glad I watched it, but I don't think I will watch it again. It's a light comedy with some funny lines, but nothing more. Read more
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As you've no doubt read already - movie-watchers are divided into 2 camps on this one - loved it/loathed it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mark Barry, Reckless Records, London
Light hearted and feel good movie!
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