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Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock Team Up in Corporate America
Millionaire George Wade (HUGH GRANT) needs a new Chief Counsel. The charismatic “public face” of the Wade Corporation, one of New York’s leading real estate development firms, George has a bad habit of hiring attractive female attorneys with dubious credentials and sleeping with them...until they make a costly mistake and get fired by his stodgy brother Howard (DAVID HAIG), the brains behind the business.

When Howard demands he hire an Ivy League lawyer to serve as Chief Counsel or kiss his stock options goodbye, George turns an unexpected confrontation with passionate environmentalist advocate Lucy Kelson (SANDRA BULLOCK) into a spontaneous job interview.

A brilliant Harvard-educated attorney with a strategic mind and a social conscience, Lucy has no interest in serving the Wade Corporation’s agenda – in fact, she’s trying to stop George and company from demolishing her neighborhood Community Center and building condos on adjacent land.

When George promises Lucy that he will protect the Community Center and put her in charge of distributing Wade Corp.’s discretionary funds to charitable causes of her choice, she reluctantly agrees to take the job. As the months pass, Lucy establishes an impeccable track record at Wade, despite countless sleepless nights and the ulcer she’s developed.

It’s not the job that’s getting to her. It’s George. Fabulously irresponsible and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a personal assistant than his multi-tasking Chief Counsel – and he can barely choose a tie without her help. After months of taking innumerable late-night phone calls and advising him on everything from his clothes to his tennis game to his divorce settlements, an exasperated Lucy gives George her two weeks notice.

But George stubbornly refuses to release Lucy from her iron-clad contract and makes it impossible for anyone else to hire her. He finally agrees to let her leave – on the condition that Lucy find her own ultra-capable replacement. Enter June Carter (ALICIA WITT), an ambitious young lawyer with little experience but a keen eye for George. Before Lucy can arrange a proper interview with June, George offers her the job.

Unlike Lucy, who ensured that the Wade Corporation used its considerable means for worthy causes, June is an opportunist who makes George feel good about his wealth, power and superficiality. She’s unfazed when Howard reneges on George’s commitment to protect Lucy’s beloved Community Center. And she doesn’t consider dating the boss to be a conflict of interest.

Meanwhile, liberated from Wade Corporation’s 24/7 demands, Lucy shifts her focus back to pro-bono work and unhappily considers life after George. When she sees June as George’s new vivacious Chief Counsel, she realizes her true feelings for him cross the line from the professional to the personal. Perhaps she’s replaced herself all too well. At the same time, George copes with the incalculable loss of a trusted confidant, a polymath consultant and a touchstone that brings out his best.

For them both – is it ever too late to say, “I love you”?

I thought the film was funny and Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant make a great comedic team. They seem to share the same sense of humor. Bullock is a perfectionist and always performs well. It was no surprise that she was the winner of the Alachua Today Golden Movie Ticket Award for best Actress.

My favorite line of the movie is where Bullock tells Grant that he is the most selfish person in the world, to which Grant replies in typical British style: “Well that is just silly, you can’t make a claim like that, unless you’ve met everyone in the whole wide world!”

If you’d like to have a relaxing fun time in the theatre, this would be a good movie to go to. It is also a great date movie.

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Caption Photograph: Photo by Demmie Todd SANDRA BULLOCK stars in Castle Rock Entertainment’s romantic comedy