DVD Review: New In Town (Fullscreen Edition): Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Jonas Elmer: Movies & TV
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What defines success? For Miami executive Lucy Hill (Renee Zellweger), it’s climbing the corporate ladder, so when her company needs someone to automate and reconfigure a food plant in a rural town in Minnesota, Lucy volunteers figuring the temporary move will lead to a big promotion. Intent on sweeping into town, mechanizing the factory, and reducing the staff by 50 percent, Lucy has no intention of letting anyone or anything stand in her way. Disdain doesn’t begin to describe what Lucy feels about the small-town residents and their obsession with scrapbooking, propensity to bring up Jesus in casual conversation, and outdated visions of what comprises an appropriate female role model. Union leader Ted (Harry Connick Jr.), plant manager Stu (J. K. Simmons), and secretary Blanche (Siobhan Fallon) bear the brunt of Lucy’s scorn, but even as she focuses on carrying out her business agenda, Lucy inexplicably finds herself drawn to those same inhabitants. As she begins to reexamine what’s truly important in her life, personal relationships unexpectedly begin to vie with business success for a spot at the top of her priority list and she begins to consider whether or not these disparate ambitions must by necessity be mutually exclusive of one another. Reminiscent of Fargo with its satiric portrait of simple Mid-Western country folk, New in Town is an engaging film about ambition, self-discovery, and love that offers plenty of laughs, life lessons, and an opportunity for personal reflection. –Tami Horiuchi
Product Description
Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger stars as Lucy Hill, a high-powered executive in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle. Seeking to snag a big promotion, Lucy agrees to move to a remote Minnesota town to oversee the restructuring of a blue-collar manufacturing plant. After enduring icy roads, freezing weather and a chilly reception from the locals, she soon warms up to the small town and its people – especially the town’s handsome union representative (Harry Connick, Jr.). What begins as a job assignment becomes the best thing ever to happen to her, in this heartwarming comedy that proves that the warmest people are often in the coldest places.
Satisfying, entertaining movie,
By Mike Sobocinski (Lansing, MI) —
Although comedy is set as this has little in common with DRECK that Hollywood has been churning out low comedy label (eg wars of the bride) because the point of this film is progressing at a more sophisticated characterization and understanding as its main character is in a fish out of water recosting transplanted from Miami to a small town in Minnesota.
This film contains aspects that enhance the drama soft respectability and credibility greatly. The characters are completely humanize while the film progresses, even if at first seem like cartoons or stereotypes. The ‘SA’s main subject of the film - that people is judged evil all the time in ways that appear to be unfair.
This film is a good-hearted, well-played that, but really is not new in theme or plot, carries a message that is well worth repeating, and does so very well through good performances and a nice script. Critics did not really serve the public good when something that assume that ‘be s before the fact that is therefore consistently lower because films within the same subgenre ever be truly identical, and the whole problem boils down to critical ALL are going through, regardless of their previous interest in the film, and critical often lack any training or master course to inform their opinions, and critical often be left to just react to each other in strange powers over who can find the movie you are most original - which usually ends up to make the most absurd and cynical and degrading.
By contrast, new city delivery outmoded message that deserves to be a true Hollywood tradition of a friendly American message of overcoming the various socio-cultural divides that exist in our country, to cut with the many stereotypes and downplay let other people (and the categories and groups), and instead of another to come to appreciate the good aspects of various forms of life and preferences that exist in the country.
In this film, something of the social divisions that are targeted and sought to include the urban / rural (or town ) starting a fracture manual / non-manual, a college educated against shops / social class division based on the ability of the arts, abundance monetary accomplishments against budgeted divisive religious / secular, and aspects of the conflict perspective provincial / cosmopolitan. This is all enough to make a very worthy, effective, engaging, entertaining, and yes, even film cause for reflection! In the class that people can actually have the power to reflect and work on improving their own defects and the construction of the bridges to get along with others or at least able to consider their views.
?Done well!
Films as they did when they made films.,
By Joshua Glowzinski Gmane (ground) —
This review is from: New to the City [theatrical release] (theatrical release)
First let me say that I am surprised that this got a bad review here. I went to see this movie with my mom. The I didn ‘t know if it was advanced past the first. Placía But I have very vistolo when he had finished. I think this movie is really funny if they thought he ’s going to make you laugh the whole way through. It gave me the feeling I got when I was observing the films that were a kid for my age. That make sense? I think saying what I ‘m that worked perfectly.
Renée Zellweger is great. She is so beautiful and serves so well. She can make you laugh without making it look as if she really tries and makes you feel what your character is feeling. I’m the last of the film not sure I saw inside. But after seeing this, I look forward to your next movie. Harry Connick Jr. is another agent that is great. He does such a great job of being the IS-IS for the individual alleged to be in this movie. He never gives the feeling of seeing someone act. He plays the part of his calm and cool. For an individual who is very good singer and actor, sure we ‘t see much of him. All the actors in this film act very well. You get the feeling that you know them, and you can understand what he ‘with reference to happen. A little at first reminded me of Fargo. hated that movie. But I loved it.
The films are on the Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger), who chooses to go to restructure a factory that is out of state. When she gets there she starts with some trouble. Some things happen and she sees this guy Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick, Jr.) she is insulted and thinks he’s a Slob. Come discover what is the union representative for the company that sent him to restructure. She is the women who do not want any help. She is the city and that’s the way you used to live. Come discover his boss wanted her to cut employees by 50%! ninguì n She has no problem with this for some time. But how does she feel she has found the people of the city? since she lives there with her and see there the way of life, she decides she wants to help? Or it will be the girl in the city, women in business class than she is, and cut your company to get higher on their own?
This movie made me laugh. But more importantly really drew me inside. I was completely and totally my attention. There are few films that make forget that I’m in a theater. Few forget everything that makes him just another. This film was one of those few. when it comes to buy the DVD. I look very forward to watch it again. I hope there will be others like this as much I. remember, even if people do something a mai no good analysis, he ’s up to you to decide whether you like it. So give him a chance.
Romance, hysterical but reliable
By Timothy P. Scanlon (Hyattsville, MDUSA) —
(THE TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: New to the City [theatrical release] (theatrical release)
When I saw a trailer for this movie, I saw that compared with Fargo the Coen brothers classic. My husband and I were both in need of a laugh so I went to see her.
I agree with at least one other review that the ’s an absurd story credible. The boy found the girl, was overlooked, yet fall in love and everyone lives happily ever after. That element of the story was a decrease. But there were enough laughs to redeem history.
I paraphrasing, and maybe adds a little to another revision: Rene Hill plays Lucy, a lifting of the corporate exec yupi based in Miami. The company decided to send someone to Minnesota to close one of its facilities. None of the individuals who will do well to volunteer Lucy. She, in true tradition, corporate VP has its corporate eye on something it ’s going to get when it accurately meets the company ‘ s goals, right?
Well, when they get to manganese, it has so little opinion of the conditions - cold, slippery - it is, alas, a fish out of water. She is his assistant, performed by Siobhan Fallon dominant, which is an exaggeration of Frances McDormand ‘in Fargo paper s. His jokes were my husband and I ROFL ing. I have one comment, however Fallon monolog de ’s (Blanche Gunderson ‘ s): She asked Lucy if she ’s found Jesus, and that became the cause for an explosion of laughter from Lucy and probably the hearing. I thought that question to be slightly inconsistent, it ’s something one would have most likely experienced in, say, Mississippi or Georgia in New Ulm, manganese.
Well, then, Lucy, while secretly trying to close the facility, located at the fireman Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick) when she blew the icy road. Eventually fall in love Well, the synopsis has been written here so I won ‘t repeat it.
In the process, not only fallen in love, but Lucy decides that the pods, they are nice people. (The story reminded me of the Fox ’s doc. Hollywood Michael J. and countless other writings.) She decides to keep the place open, and up with a new product - soso - soso soso.
In an honest, while I laughed in writing, I found this piece of history to be a complete fantasy. Most of the corporations we work today. First, the product went up with (no, I won ‘t give it away here and spoil the story) the wouldn ‘ t compete with the corporate product, packed and popular. Secondly, no, the corporation ’s not going to say, Aw, pods, let ‘ s nice is that these people told us that Lucy is so picturesque.
So, without further donor, Ted and Lucy fall in love, and all lived happily ever after.
Hmmm. I ‘m absolutely critical history. So why give it four stars? Because laughter.
Once again I think the idea of the accent was a product of McDormand ‘prize in Fargo’s role in the academy s. In this film could have done a bit of a caricature out of it. One of the characters of Minnesota, by the way, was played by one of my heroines, Frances Conroy (I’m a big six feet below fan). But it was so well - I actually was laughing thoughout.
Then there ’s the scene where Ted and Lucy try to disguise her indiscretion so that Ted didn ‘ s the daughter ‘t know what happened, one-hand type. But the choreography required while Ted Lucy Lucy and looking call of nature and worth the price of the ticket.
No, I won ‘t give away more than that, but it was hysterical.
Again as others have already said and will say, if you the’re after soul-enhancing, a humanitarian, or a realistic story, it might not be for you. That ain ‘t work that way of life except perhaps in the movies. but if you ‘d like some hearty laughs - maybe a bit to give you what is a grinder’ s coming on in today ’s economy, this side.
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