5/28/2009

New in Town (2009)

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Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger), an ambitious young executive with a food production company in Miami, is assigned to go to northern Minnesota to restructure a plant and eventually shut it down. When she arrives at the airport in her short designer skirt and expensive high heels she walks out into the arctic blast and snow and wonders what in the heck she's doing there. The experience goes down from there when she encounters scrapbookers, tapioca, flannel, driving on the frozen lake, hockey, ice fishing, "hidey-ho," crow hunting, middle American values, and one "ass truck driver" who turns out to be Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick Jr.), the union rep she has to deal with in the whole transition.

Also in the cast are Siobhan Fallon as Lucy's secretary; J.K. Simmons as the plant foreman Stu Kopenhafer; Frances Conroy as townie Trudy Van Uuden; Ferron Guerreiro as Ted 13-year-old daughter.

I had some serious laugh out loud moments watching this chick flick but I think even guys would get a kick out of it.

Directed by Jonas Elmer.

Run time: 1 hour, 37 minutes

Rated PG for language and some suggestive material.

My personal rating: B+

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