Maid in Manhatten

Maid in Manhatten
Cast: Jennifer Lopez
Studio: Columbia
Rating: 5/10

Film Studio Synopsis: Jennifer Lopez is Marisa Ventura, a street savvy, independent single mother who lives in the Bronx with her son, Ty, and works as a maid in a first class Manhattan hotel. Marisa dreams of a better life but has learned to depend upon her own wits to get her there. Enter Christopher Hall, a handsome, debonair heir to an American political dynasty. Chris is in New York for a week of glad-handing with party big shots and is staying in the hotel where Marisa works. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, the two meet. Marisa soon finds herself gaining insight into the life of a man she might otherwise have judged from a distance. When her true identity is revealed, however, the truth sets in as to the disparity in their lives.

The Good: The good? Are you kidding me?

The Bad: Do we believe Jennifer Lopez? I don’t. It’s impossible to believe this actress in the role of a modern day Cinderella story. She doesn’t have the heart and you can see it in every painful minute of this film. When Julia Roberts won the world over with her part in Pretty Woman it was because we believed her heart was as big as her smile. Here we believe Lopez’s heart is big as the Grinch’s, two sizes too small.

Ty is way over the top as the gifted son. One question; can’t we have one film where the kid isn’t gifted just so that they can be meaningful? Aren’t regular kids meaningful enough?

Ralph Fiennes is a great actor. All I could wonder watching this was; ‘why are you doing this film?’

Frankly: They claim its like Pretty Woman? That’s as funny as anything this film has to offer.

+ charlie craine


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