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WARNING! Be careful buying this DVD. It would not play in my DVD player and I had to return it. Then the replacement wouldn’t play either! I think they are trying some kind of new copy protection that doesn’t work with a lot of players. What a pain in the butt.
Rating: 1 / 5

I didn’t get to see the movie, it would not play on my dvd player so I had to send it back. Amazon was suppose to refund my money to my account but it hasn’t been refunded yet.
Rating: 1 / 5

While so many people are looking for surprises in this film of one sort or another,

without finding it, I found it. Somewhat in line with other comments’ references to

Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, and to social polarities like secular/religious, the romantic comedy and urban-rural dimensions make

for some pleasant and thought-provoking story-telling, I found, and lead up to the

most unexpected and surprising endings, possibly of all time. Even funny progressive films like

Fun With Dick and Jane, I Heart Huckabees, and Mike Moore’s The Big One simply don’t get much beyond the problem of the modern corporation exploiting the locals, the little guys, and practicing

Merchant and anti-democratic aristocracy by extremist anti-union thuggery, mobster political influence, harassment, and fraud.

This film actually breaks new ground by resolving the problem without the problematic hope of a new boss.

Remember the Who song of the same theme? Reaching beyond the triumphant labor resolutions

of Norma Rae and North Country, this film invokes a solution characteristic of United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Avis’ past recent line of thought. Instead, the film invokes employee-ownership is not so radical in many ways from a common sense perspective, and a historical view. While entrepreneurial magnates have long managed to subdue America’s pioneering democratic spirit with self-serving illusions of economic liberty, oh yeah, without guarantees of market diversity and democracy for the little guy.

However, thanks to our victory in WWII, US Corporate executives have been able to stick US fingers in pies around the world, and to claim it all as ours. As such, most of us can still not feel their pain, see the hole in this picture. We don’t live in an age where most people can see through the advertising gloss and corporate media hypno-news. I guess the never-ending twists and turns of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons and Da Vinci Code, which also reduce

Jesus’ significance to a royal genetic bloodline are fine companions to the supercharged corporate consumer culture. See William Greider’s book, The Soul of Capitalism, for a really satisyfing and groundbreaking treatment of the substance of this point. Sen. Russell Long’s ERICA ESOP legislation of the 1970’s and the disastrous deregulation by corporate executives and their minions as discussed in Krugman’s Conscience of a Liberal have disrupted many a real life love story, or the lack thereof.

We could even go into the deeper layers raised by Michael Clayton, The Constant Gardener, Blood Diamonds, and Erin Brockavich, but this is just a chick flick, right?

Given the range of cinematic masterpieces over the years which have approached the topic of injustice in numerous qualitative ways, I think of My Man Godfrey, Jerry Maguire, and Chocolat. My overall knowledge of film history is not complete, by any means. Nevertheless, my study of biology, anthropology, and related fields, and participation in social reform has given me firm foundations that are ultimately able to counter the relentless myopic messages of billion dollar advertising schlock, internationally, but most egregiously in the US.

Enjoy the film. Considering the giant leap for humankind in its vision, it really is one cozy lovey-dovey comedy in my view. As one of the film’s jokes goes, “Have you found Jesus?” “I didn’t know he was lost.” Ha, ha. Actually, Jesus healed and talked about love, justice, avoiding materialistic greed, learning, and reverence for morals and ethics. Just where does that leave lying and cheating power addicts and unscientific ideologues all over America and the world? How ironic that joke is.

Like the Houston Chronicle, which published an NCBA Cooperative Business partnership op-ed following the 1999-2008 Sub-prime, Mortgage Derivatives, repealed-Glass-Steagall Act Crisis, the New York Times’ NCBA advertorial, and Counterpunch’s Nader on Credit Unions, this film is Gandhi for lovers and Sting and Trudie Styler for activists. Cheers.
Rating: 5 / 5

I was expecting a fun, romantic comedy– and this is the complete opposite of that… I gave it one star only because Harry Connick Jr is so cute…
Rating: 1 / 5

My wife and I rented this film hoping for a predictable romantic comedy with a predictable happy ending. The whole point of a romantic comedy is to watch the chemistry develop between the actor and actress. Maybe a few tears, a laugh or two.

I knew something was wrong with this film when I saw the font “Papyrus” being used for the opening credits. The script was horribly written, with awkward moments where I knew the writer thought I’d be laughing but instead, I’m looking at the clock. Renee’s character is poorly developed so we don’t really care if she finds love or not. Harry Connick Jr. is the only bright spot but his part is the easiest. And there is an interesting problem with the location: there are quite a few well known actors in the film that we all know… actors and actresses who we don’t know their names but we know them well because they show up in every film. When you take a well known actor and then type-cast them into a severe role like a Minnesotan hick, tell them to do their best Minnesotan accent, it’s hard for the audience to accept. They butcher the poor people of Minnesota. I’ve been to Minnesota and yes, they have accents. But not like this, people.

My wife and I made it about an hour into the film and were so bored, we decided to go to bed. We both had good books to read and with two kids and one on the way, we don’t have time to waste. Next time, we’ll just watch “The Family Man” for the hundredth time and get our tears and laughs and feel good at the end.
Rating: 1 / 5