Synopsis
A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
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Cast
- Sarah Jessica ParkerKate Reddy
- Pierce BrosnanJack Abelhammer
- Greg KinnearRichard Reddy
- Christina HendricksAllison Henderson
- Kelsey GrammerClark Cooper
- Seth MeyersChris Bunce
- Olivia MunnMomo Hahn
- Sarah ShahiJanine LoPietro
- Jane CurtinMarla Reddy
- Mark BlumLew Reddy
Recommendations
- 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Yes, I cringed at the casting, too, especially when, watching the trailer, I heard Parker deliver the narration in the same voice she used for Carrie in "Sex and the City." But Kate is funnier - less arch - than Carrie, and Parker reminds you what a dizzy, all-in, high-risk comic actress she can be when she's not too busy showing off the couture. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Amusing, but formulaic, romantic comedy. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Director Douglas McGrath's empathy rescues it from the brink of disaster porn - it's so good-hearted and optimistic that a swath of stressed out moms will feel the flick speaks directly to them, which it does. - 50
Variety
Sarah Jessica Parker's myriad fans will doubtless appreciate her frazzled warmth in a part she energetically inhabits, but the picture at times feels out of step with contemporary reality and humorless in its adaptation of a comic bestseller. - 50
Orlando Sentinel
She (Parker) looks exhausted, first scene to last, and that fatigue spills off the screen onto us. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
The second insurmountable problem is the difference between Parker's performance as a fortysomething banker, wife, and mother musing (in voice-over) at her computer and her previous performance as a single, thirtysomething girl-about-town in "Sex and the City": There is none. I don't know why she does it. - 30
Village Voice
She is also played by Sarah Jessica Parker, a performer so aggressively determined to make us like her that no work-life conflicts in the film ever gain any traction; we're too distracted by the actress's manic tics (the head tilts, the popping of the wounded-deer eyes) to notice any real adversity. - 25
Slant Magazine
The witticisms are delivered via a suffocating glut of audience hand-holding, which includes constant doc-style confessionals, whimsical on-screen text, studio-audience sound effects, voices in Kate's head, and voiceover narration.
