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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language
Starring Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., J.K. Simmons, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Frances Conroy, Mike O'Brien, and Rashida Jones
Lucy Hill is an ambitious, up and coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment - in the middle of nowhere - to restructure a manufacturing plant, she accepts the opportunity, knowing a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight forward job assignment becomes a life changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams. (Lionsgate)
| GENRE(S): | Comedy | Romance |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Kenneth Rance
C. Jay Cox |
| DIRECTED BY: | Jonas Elmer |
| RELEASE DATE: | Theatrical: January 30, 2009 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 96 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
| LANGUAGE(S): | English | Spanish |
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The average user rating for this movie is 4.4 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
hughie gave it a7:
Not great, but much more entertaining than the bulk of these reviews would lead you to believe.
Chad S. gave it a4:
No worldly sophisticate by any stretch of the imagination, Marge Gunderson(Frances McDormand) displayed all the tell-tale signs of living in a small-town, but she was smart, on her own terms, funny voice notwithstanding. The Brainerd detective is the sort of character that's sorely missing in "New in Town", a person who could put the city girl in her place. The waitress tries. At the diner, the waitress ridicules Lucy(Renee Zellweger) for believing that the town of New Ulm celebrates a holiday which pays homage to the gopher. But really, the joke is on the old woman and the diner patrons, because that's the extent of the insularity Lucy surmises these rural folks embody. This company henchwoman makes the Bill Murray character in Harold Ramis' "Groundhog Day" seem congenial. At some point, however, Lucy's condesension will come to a halt, and "voila", the people she despises suddenly becomes the people she cherishes. But the manner in which Lucy goes about her transformation seems even more unearned than what is usually part and parcel of the rom-com formula. She simply gets into a car accident and emerges from the accident, a changed woman. This near-death experience negates the occasion for these Minnesota denizens to prove their mettle as Lucy's equals, and truly earn her respect. Instead of feeling contempt for these "lowly" people, now she pities them. Now she has to save them; her dear, dear underlings. Thanks to an undiagnosed concussion, this professional woman, on the fast track to VP stewardship, can now enjoy the simple things in life, like put on a scarf and join the carollers, as they all hold candles in open-mouthed earnestness around a lighted Christmas tree. For "New in Town" to transcend its initial patronizing attitude towards country life, Blanche Gunderson(Sibohan Fallon) needed to launch her "Tapioca Pudding Boom" without Lucy's marketing know-how. As for Ted(Harry Connick Jr.), he has the steering wheel column to thank for his good fortune.
kg m. gave it a5:
Renee Zellweger (Lucy) lost a lot of weight and looks fantastic in her designer clothes and shoes. That said, this is your typical ‘fish out of water’, uncaring corporate greed, morality play and it’s done in cookie-cutter fashion and offers absolutely nothing new. What redeems this movie are the Minnesota accents, the authentic Midwestern snow, and the undercurrent of Christianity and family values done in a non-condescending way. Not quite sure why you would bring this out in late January as opposed to the Christmas season but perhaps they figured that this movie wouldn’t stand out. Well, it doesn’t, but that’s OK.
Movie Goer gave it a1:
Awful, awful, awful. Patronizing, painfully obvious, creaky, unfunny. This is industry product every bit as gloppy and unsavory as the sludge produced at the movie's New Ulm factory. Written by people who have obviously never actually been within 3,000 miles of the location in question, there's not a credible character (or characterization - Hogan is particularly ridiculous) in the entire enterprise.
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