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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 26, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Renée Zellweger & Harry Connick, Jr. | |
Performer: | J.K. Simmons, Frances Conroy & Rashida Jones | |
Directed by | Jonas Elmer | |
Screenwriting by | Kenneth Rance & C. Jay Cox | |
Composition by | John Swihart | |
Produced by | Paul Brooks, Peter Safran, Darryl Taja & Tracey E. Edmonds | |
Director of Photography: | Chris Seager | |
Executive Production by | Scott Niemeyer & Norm Waitt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Most of the time [Zellweger] looks uncomfortable in the role -- as in, what am I doing in this hammy, undercooked movie?
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 2/4 --
Unfortunately, the film quickly devolves into a mess of cliches.
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Washington Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Renée Zellweger's rabbity, dimply pout - surely the strangest facial expression in Hollywood - simpers and twitches out of the screen in this moderate girly flick that adheres with almost religious fanaticism to the feelgood romcom handbook.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/5 --
Zellwegger struggles in a frosty role that forces her into one comic indignity after another.
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American Profile
Rating: 1/5 --
The film starts off as a tedious, lifeless ordeal and it stays that way with a vengeance.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 1/6 --
A shockingly banal script lends the movie a generic awfulness; you wish Zellweger were in better hands.
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Time Out
Sweet, gooey romantic comedy.
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East Bay Express
Product Description:
Renee Zellweger stars opposite Harry Connick Jr. in this snow-packed romantic comedy. NEW IN TOWN begins in Miami, home to Lucy Hill (Zellweger), a single, high-powered executive on the fast track to being a CEO. With her spiked heels, plush bachelorette pad, and fierce collection of power suits, Lucy is unprepared when her boss sends her to snowy Minnesota to work on-site at one of the company's factories. Reluctantly leaving her sunny home, Lucy lands in New Ulm, a small town distinguished by a thick Midwestern accent, a strong work ethic, and an appropriately skeptical attitude toward big-city newcomers like Lucy, who finds herself in a brutal battle against several factory workers, a nosy assistant (Siobhan Fallon), and a stubborn union rep (Connick) who, as fate would have it, just happens to be a love interest as well.
Zellweger appears a bit wooden at the start of the film but eases into her role as the film progresses. As her character grows more comfortable in her own skin and develops some empathy towards her new neighbors, we see Zellweger's familiar charm emerge. Much of the film's humor comes at the expense of Minnesotans, but the cast delivers the jokes in good fun. Director Jonas Elmer captures some chemistry between his two leads, though the film doesn't rely too heavily on this romance. Instead, it explores the differences in small- versus big-town life, exposing the unique, homey appeal of the former. By focusing on the people working behind the scenes, NEW IN TOWN celebrates a way of American life that is rarely the focus of Hollywood romantic comedies.
Zellweger appears a bit wooden at the start of the film but eases into her role as the film progresses. As her character grows more comfortable in her own skin and develops some empathy towards her new neighbors, we see Zellweger's familiar charm emerge. Much of the film's humor comes at the expense of Minnesotans, but the cast delivers the jokes in good fun. Director Jonas Elmer captures some chemistry between his two leads, though the film doesn't rely too heavily on this romance. Instead, it explores the differences in small- versus big-town life, exposing the unique, homey appeal of the former. By focusing on the people working behind the scenes, NEW IN TOWN celebrates a way of American life that is rarely the focus of Hollywood romantic comedies.
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- UPC: 031398109860
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