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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Marc Lawrence
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Actors:
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Dana Ivey,
Heather Burns,
David Haig,
Joseph Badalucco Jr.,
Jonathan Dokuchitz,
Janine LaManna,
Iraida Polanco,
Charlotte Maier,
Sandra Bullock,
Hugh Grant,
Alicia Witt,
Robert Klein,
Dorian Missick,
Veanne Cox,
Katheryn Winnick
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)87.5
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Plot Summary:
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Millionaire George Wade (Hugh Donation) needs a new Chief Guide, and he turns an unexpected confrontation with snappish environmentalist supporter Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) into a spontaneous job appraise. It's not the affair that's getting to her. It's George. He finally agrees to let her leave on the condition that Lucy find her own ultra-qualified replacement. Record June Carter (Alicia Witt), an ambitious young King's counsel with little experience but a zealous eye for George.
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Tags:
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Strangely Unfunny.......
This film should have been a decent romantic comedy, it has the ingredients with two fine comedy performers to add to the mix and moments where you should really find yourself laughing. But you don't. You can see that they've made the effort but for some reason the laughs consistently fall flat. The romance doesn't seem believable either and I reckon you have to blame the director for allowing this film to become so lame as it would have worked if the comedy had been handled differently. Overall a missed opportunity.
Two Weeks Notice
Lawyer Sandra Bullock decides to quit after her job turns into babysitting boss Hugh Grant. But their professional relationship blossoms into something more during her notice period
A recipe for a romantic comedy. Very easy. No original thought required:
1) Hire Sandra Bullock to play a sweet, liberal lawyer.
2) Hire Hugh Grant as her bumbling, toffish but charming boss. Boss is co-owner of evil real estate mega-company.
3) Show several scenes of girl falling over things to demonstrate kookie, klutzy nature.
4) Show several scenes of boss finding life impossible to organise without sweet ditzy girl.
5) Girl hands in notice as boss becomes nightmare.
6) Boss and girl fall in love with crushing inevitability, despite girl falling over se...
Two Weeks Notice
Sandra Bullock plays a liberal mouthpiece who fights for environmental causes; Hugh Grant is a real property baron who plans to knock down her townswoman community centre in Coney Ait to build condominiums — she agrees to work him if he doesn't go in front with the demolition. So, the twins are thrown together in true lustful comedy institution: opposites fighting an magnetism. Bullock ends up on-going the hapless multimillionaire's life — everything from handling his divorce to choosing his shirts — until she gets fed up, hands in her (two weeks) note and quits. Commitment they overthrow their differences and come on a way back to each other? The formulaic cook up is not the main stew here as even the surpass romantic comedies force genus convention...
Two Weeks Notice
Both leads coast along in roles that they keep played on numerous occasions once ? the floppy-haired sorcerer and the endearing klutz ? and never sway that two such opposites would attract.
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