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I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011)

Director: Douglas McGrath

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From Time Out London

Multitasking Boston mother Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, still doing her insufferable sage routine from ‘Sex and the City’) has a devoted husband (Greg Kinnear), two beautiful children and a job she loves – in finance, no less. To those around her, Kate’s a miracle worker who somehow juggles the pressures of bake sales and number crunching. But it doesn’t take long before Douglas McGrath’s painfully unfunny comedy reveals the awful truth: this woman is stressed out. If Stan Brakhage can create a movie literally out of dead moths, then humour can surely be extracted from the first-world problems of an investment strategist. The situations are third-rate sitcom at best, while a bevy of television stars past and present orbit SJP to constantly affirm her character’s rightness in all things

Author: Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

Time Out London Issue 2143: 15 – 21 September, 2011

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lizt said...

Posted on Sep 29 2011 21:35 Not as good as the book but nevertheless, better than your critic would have us believe. Whose daft idea was it to send a bloke to review this film? It's all about maternal guilt and blokes cannot know much about that!

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ARCHGATE said...

Posted on Sep 19 2011 10:17 This is a charming little comedy which is much better than the Time Out review suggests. I've never particularly liked SJP but she won me over in this one. The Time Out reviewer has clearly decided to go on the attack. I hope he gets shifted over to the Daily Star so I can be spared reading his stuff.

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xXXx said...

Posted on Sep 15 2011 20:51 Google "yougov film critics" for the great survey on why people choose the films they go and see. Time Out registers at about 0% influence, ALL critics get 6% but 5.5% is Wossy, Kermode and James King. Depressing reading for film critics...I best this gets removed as film critics don't like bad reviews...

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