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Oh, look, it's rich people in beautifully appointed houses and they're worried that the nanny might not arrive on time for them to make important morning meetings at work. Boo-hoo.
Leah Rozen, TheWrap
I Don't Know How She Does It
If it were easy, men would do it too.
2011 · 1h 29m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Douglas McGrath
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I Don't Know How She Does It
Overview
As an employee at a Boston-based financial firm, Kate Reddy struggles daily to balance the demands of her high-powered career with the needs of her husband, Richard, and their two children. When she gets an account that requires frequent trips to New York and her husband gets a new job, Kate finds herself spread even thinner. Complicating Kate's life even more is her new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who throws temptation into the mix.
Director and cast
- Douglas McGrath Director
- Sarah Jessica Parker as Kate Reddy
- Pierce Brosnan as Jack Abelhammer
- Greg Kinnear as Richard Reddy
- Busy Philipps as Wendy Best
- Christina Hendricks as Allison Henderson
- Olivia Munn as Momo
- Kelsey Grammer as Clark Cooper
- Seth Meyers as Chris Bunce
- Jane Curtin Cast
- Mark Blum Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
In the chick-flick world, hell is other women, and here specifically it's the stay-at-home wife and mother.
Ella Taylor, NPR
Rotten
How nice it would have been had McKenna penned a couple of those audience-addressing interludes for Richard or Jack. What would these modern, succesful men tell us of themselves?
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Rotten
I Don't Know How She Does It purports to be about the difficult choices of modern motherhood, but it's too prim and cautious a movie to dip a pedicured toe into the murky waters of real choice.
Dana Stevens, Slate
Rotten
The main problem is that this Boston-set flick quite unselfconsciously presents itself as if it were a pop-culture first to express ideas about the working-mom balancing act.
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail
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