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Review: New In Town

Predictable squalls of melodrama and touching resolve flow like "poop through a tall Swede"
By TOM MEEK  |  January 27, 2009
2.5 2.5 Stars


VIDEO: The trailer for New In Town

In the teeth of the recession, this fluffy Renée Zellweger vehicle uncorks a fairy-tale panacea for the latest CNN economic update. Zellweger's Lucy Hill is a corporate ax in clingy skirts whose Miami consulting company sends her to frigid Minnesota to retool a food-processing plant and then lay off the Fargo-esque podunks. There, of course, the Hollywood magic kicks in: ice queen Lucy, having left the materialistic shine of South Florida, thaws out and discovers romance, which comes in the form of Harry Connick Jr.'s guarded union rep, Ted. T

he predictable squalls of melodrama and touching resolve flow like "poop through a tall Swede," as a random yokel puts it. Danish director Jonas Elmer doesn't quite understand romantic nuance, and Siobhan Fallon Hogan, as Lucy's tapioca-obsessed secretary, channels Frances McDormand to a T.

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I Smell Poop

Speaking of Poop,
When Harry Connick Jr. was in fourth grade in the Weston, Connecticut public school system, all of his classmates learned that he couldn't wipe his behind. The story goes that Harry cried and cried because the teacher refused to do it. (After third grade in Conn. the teacher is not obligated to wipe a student's butt. In fact, it's a union rule.) In the end, the ASSistant principle came and did the dirty deed. Harry's friends and classmates never let him forget it.
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