Cute, predictable, and quite enjoyablePG (1:36)
RT: 18% cag: 75%
Released Jan. 30, 2009
(I think this was the last day on the big screen here)
Century Gateway Cheap Theater
Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick, Jr.
Director: Jonas Elmer (Dutch, Hollywood debut)
The critics and I don't see eye to eye on this one. Yes, it is predictable and cute. So I guess I like predictable and cute. It's also quite funny, and Harry Connick, Jr. is charming, charming, charming. Zellweger's Lucy, a VP in a big company based in Miami, is sent to Hobunkland, Minnesota in the middle of a frigid winter to oversee a small plant there - and lay off 50% of its employees. Her secretary is a Jesus-loving scrapbooker, the union rep is an outdoorsman who easily exchanges verbal quips with her, and the rest of the cast is an assorment of funny (though, yes, stereotypical) small town Minnesotans. Boy and girl fall in love, girl fixes everything, etc. etc., but it was a lot of fun for and hour and a half - and who doesn't need an hour and a half of fun and laughter and popcorn once in awhile?
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