2011 · romance · comedy · music
I Don't Know How She Does It
Directed by Douglas McGrath1h 29m2011
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.
Our read: I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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