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Posted by admin on February 13th, 2009
SINGAPORE – A rip-off of every city-slicker-stuck-in-a-rural-town flick ever made, “New in Town” is typical recycled Hollywood rom-com drivel.
Renee Zellweger is Lucy Hill, an up-and-coming single female executive at a food production company in Miami. She is, within the first five minutes of the film (because all early character development can be taken care of in a montage) sent to a small town in Minnesota to restructure the local plant. Naturally, this well-heeled girl has nothing but contempt for the simple folk dumb enough to live in such a boring, barren land. Enter perfectly rugged, yet vulnerable union leader (Harry Connick Jr) and our big town girl learns small town values. But, of course.
The clich s are thicker than the ice on the frozen lakes and the writing is transparent beyond belief. “New in Town” has all the ingredients (big Hollywood name, funny accents, unlikely romance) but is that really enough? -
Channel News Asia