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Sandra Bullock (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) not only produced this silly attempt at a blockbuster, but starred in it as Lucy Kelson the granola eating, Birkenstock wearing legal aid attorney that protests and chains herself to bull dozers to prevent the destruction of buildings. This story has no potential and no real interest, which is a shame because the on screen chemistry between Hugh Grant (About a Boy) and Bullock is the only thing holding this film together. In fact scenes from the trailers don’t even make it into the final cut of this film. This makes one wonder if a lot of re-editing went into the final version before being released to the unsuspecting public. The opening scene has Lucy and her friends getting arrested for trying to prevent the bull dozing of a building initiated by Wade Industries. She learns that the next project for Wade Industries is the demolition of the community center in her neighborhood. This neighborhood is also where she grew up. She confronts George Wade (Grant) to offer a counter proposal. Coincidently, Wade is in the process of trying to find a new attorney. This womanizer only seeks bubblehead bimbo’s with offshore law degrees so he can have some fun and irritate his brother. Lucy got her law degree from Harvard and that is what Wade has been instructed to find, an attorney from Harvard or else. He offers her the job on the condition he would not tear down her community center and she could work on other projects to save the neighborhoods. Sounds like a good deal, only the demands of the job require around the clock hand holding of her boss and then he is forced to renege on the community center. Lucy gives her two-weeks notice, hence the title of this film, at which point she discovers her feelings for Wade run much deeper. The story is predicable and leaves no room for growth. It was just too bad that the first time Bullock and Grant hook up in a romantic comedy they could not have had a better script to work with. They could have been the next Hanks and Ryan. What is even harder to take is they waited for this script claiming to be picky about their first film together. I guess when the director Marc Lawrence is the also the writer and the star is also the producer, ideas and opinions become a little skewed as to what is good and what is just plain silly. Also in this movie were Mark Fenerstien (Abandon), Jason Antoon (Minority Report), and Heather Burns (Miss Congeniality). I give this film five couches out of 10, well only because I did mention they had good chemistry. Ta.
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