Not the sort of film I like, but then I am a man, but after being 'forced' to watch it I must admit to not finding it at all hard work. Just the 'nice' sort of film that does not seem to get made so much anymore, that is able to show the real life problems that a single parent has to go thru and then the nicer sides to that you can have in this life.
Could be a bit slow to start but then does have its funny parts that are able to make you cringe as you laugh. I would not have thought the actors could have pulled their parts off so well if I have not had seen it, and I am by no means a big fan of either of the leads but they did do a very good job of making the parts their own. Pfeiffer plays the working woman having to fight tooth and nail in this 'mans' world to keep up and Clooney (journalist) doing his part in trying to clean up the corruption going on and both able to give each other a helping hand by looking after the kids, sometimes not very well, but these parts are secondary to the main story of the two of them and a growing relationship born out of a necessity to keep a working life going while looking after the kids.
I would have no problem sitting down to watch it again and gave it a 7/10 which I feel is quite a big deal, if you feel the need to keep your better half happy on a film night you could do a lot worse :)
Could be a bit slow to start but then does have its funny parts that are able to make you cringe as you laugh. I would not have thought the actors could have pulled their parts off so well if I have not had seen it, and I am by no means a big fan of either of the leads but they did do a very good job of making the parts their own. Pfeiffer plays the working woman having to fight tooth and nail in this 'mans' world to keep up and Clooney (journalist) doing his part in trying to clean up the corruption going on and both able to give each other a helping hand by looking after the kids, sometimes not very well, but these parts are secondary to the main story of the two of them and a growing relationship born out of a necessity to keep a working life going while looking after the kids.
I would have no problem sitting down to watch it again and gave it a 7/10 which I feel is quite a big deal, if you feel the need to keep your better half happy on a film night you could do a lot worse :)