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New in Town

2009

Jonas Elmer

Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon, Frances Conroy ...

4.2

3,850

Romance. Comedy Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger) is an ambitious, up and coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment - in the middle of nowhere - to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight forward job assignment becomes a life changing ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"This crap is supposed to be the chick flick antidote to Super Bowl fever. Ha! (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The real question is, do you like this sort of rom-com? It's a fair example of its type, not good, but competent (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[A] flat romantic comedy (...) 'New In Town' has no idea of how to play its cards."	NEG
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"Even pandering fairy tales about the innate decency of common people should have at least a fuzzy basis in reality."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"I've seen the film described as 'Bridget Jones' meets 'Fargo' - but this cutesy confection is a world away from 'Fargo's dark taste (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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