sohotech-82-836709
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If your running a business in 2013 and you are close to losing everything don't go and see this movie.
The problem with this movie is that Mann and Apatow pretend that they know what it is like to run your own business. Both of the main characters in the movie are not hands on involved in running either of their businesses which is probably the reality for both Mann and Apatow. They are one or two steps removed from reality.
What Mann and Apatow do know is what it is like to be with your kids 24/7 which is nothing like the real world. So in the movie both of the main characters are constantly up in their kids business and all of these scenes work as showing how underemployed overly concerned parents who have nothing to do all day behave.
If you want an insight into the lives of the Hollywood Rich and Famous this movie works as a perfect vehicle for that. The trappings of normality should be ignored.
Paul Rudd deserves a mention for making his stand-in replacement for Apatow an insensitive crude bro who is almost certainly nothing like Apatow.
The problem with this movie is that Mann and Apatow pretend that they know what it is like to run your own business. Both of the main characters in the movie are not hands on involved in running either of their businesses which is probably the reality for both Mann and Apatow. They are one or two steps removed from reality.
What Mann and Apatow do know is what it is like to be with your kids 24/7 which is nothing like the real world. So in the movie both of the main characters are constantly up in their kids business and all of these scenes work as showing how underemployed overly concerned parents who have nothing to do all day behave.
If you want an insight into the lives of the Hollywood Rich and Famous this movie works as a perfect vehicle for that. The trappings of normality should be ignored.
Paul Rudd deserves a mention for making his stand-in replacement for Apatow an insensitive crude bro who is almost certainly nothing like Apatow.
Hewitt's character Sam makes passing nods to her "Christian Beliefs" whilst justifying her behavior as the only think she can do to help her family. Apparently in today's America helping your family means buying them stuff. Sam's love for her children barely extends beyond buying stuff for them which is probably where America is going wrong in the first place. Hewitt's performance center's around her unusual skills at satisfying her clients which apparently is the only thing her client's wives want to know in a later scene. Her husbands behavior is just as bizarre when he discovers what it is his wife is actually doing at her "Day Job". When did men start crying instead of doing what is more natural? The characters around Sam are just not that believable and even less so when Sam's mother says "it is partly my fault". When did a mother ever say that? The final punishment for Sam;s behavior and her redemption are both as ridiculous as the almost Disneyesque "Only for Mature viewers" plot line. if this is the 80's someone should pinch me so I can wake up. This has to have been written by someone who does not have a sex life.