I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
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Genre: Comedy | USA
1080p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1920 x 1080 | x264 @ 16000 Kbps | 01:29:28 | 11,27 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Comedy | USA
A working mother strives to balance her demanding career with the stress of raising two young children and maintaining a healthy marriage in this comedy adapted from the best-selling novel by Allison Pearson. By day, Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) works for a Boston-based financial management firm; by night, she's a devoted mother to two adoring children and the happily married wife of out-of-work architect Richard (Greg Kinnear). Though balancing those two worlds has its fair share of challenges, Kate generally manages to come out on top thanks to the support of her best friend, Allison (Christina Hendricks), who's had plenty of experience balancing kids and a career. Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, Kate's sharp-as-a-tack junior associate assistant, Momo (Olivia Munn), possesses a fear of children and a strong work ethic. Just when Kate lands a lucrative new account that will see her traveling across the country on a regular basis, however, her new business associate Jack (Pierce Brosnan) reveals his flirtatious side and Richard receives a job offer he can't turn down. Though it looks as if Kate and Richard couldn't possibly take on any more responsibility, the demands of modern living ensure they'll never have a dull moment, even if they try.
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The film opens, like the book, with the moment where Kate arrives home from an exhausting business trip, and is discovered in the kitchen by her long-suffering husband (Greg Kinnear) “distressing” a shop-bought pie to take to the school cake sale, because she doesn’t want her daughter to be humiliated by the home-baked offerings of children whose mothers don’t work.
From there Douglas McGrath’s movie fairly zips along, as Reddy’s life is thrown into chaos when she lands a huge business deal, developed in partnership with Pierce Brosnan’s suave Jack Abelhammer, New York boss of the Boston financial firm for which she works. We meet her best friend Allison (Christina Hendricks), a lawyer and single mother, whose domestic failures are more marked than Reddy’s own (she takes unset jelly to the sale); we see her unpleasant male colleagues, and her unsupportive mother-in-law.
The script is sharp (“Trying to be a man is a waste of a good woman”), the mood both funny (as in Reddy’s first meeting with Abelhammer, where she discovers she has head lice) and touching (as she sings her children to sleep by mobile phone). The performances are an understated joy, particularly Brosnan, who convinces as the not-quite-romantic interest, and Kinnear, who makes goodness believable.
The real pleasure of I Don’t Know How She Does It, though, lies in its assertion that women can adore their job and their family, and somehow make it through to the end of the day, with an acknowledgement of life’s imperfections. When did you last see that in a film?Sarah Crompton, Telegraph
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