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I Don't Know How She Does It with Sarah Jessica Parker

Written by Jonathan Jacobs

I Don't Know How She Does It is the perfect movie for Sarah Jessica Parker. It is a relatively age appropriate picture that does not showcase her as a thirty something hottie on the prowl, nor does it seek to portray her as a spoiled princess. Instead, I Don't Know How She Does It offers a more mild and serious Parker. She is able to come across as a real person, someone we can relate to and sympathize with, and quote frankly, I don't know how she does it.

Kate Reddy (Parker) is a financial executive. Her work responsibilities include light travel, late meetings, concocting financial reports, and being available at the drop of a dime for her boss or for a given client. You read correctly ladies and beasts, those are just her WORK obligations. Kate is also the mother of two lovely children and the wife of a very lucky man (for the most part). Richard Reddy (Greg Kinnear) is a devoted father and husband, resident sweetheart, and an overlooked professional. Someway, somehow, in the middle of reconciling and vowing to change their schedules to be there for each other more often, as well as home more frequently for the kids, both parents are asked to be ready (pun intended) to achieve the impossible. Kate's latest proposal is accepted by Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan), and Richard's pitch is a winner. Both are scheduled to begin grueling working hours that will keep them physically apart from each other and from their kids.

Throughout the film, the focus is on women and their perceptions of motherhood, their careers, and their ambitions. Fellow mother Wendy Best (Busy Philipps) is interviewed concerning her thoughts on Kate's choice to be both a mother and an executive. Kate is rather simple-minded and snobby about the subject. Her preference is to exercise all day rather than developing a professional identity. Kate's best friend Allison (Christina Hendricks) is completely supportive of her decisions and is convinced that Kate is the best juggler show knows. Other women from Kate's workplace are rather cold-hearted and drop-dead efficient, and most of all, disapproving about parenthood. Kate is depicted as a rarity, or something of a mysterious sideshow.

Sarah Jessica Parker is as good as any actress at making women look strong, independent and powerful. Though she often goes about it the wrong way by obsessing about looking younger than she is, and by wearing seven thousand dollar shoes, she nonetheless is something of an onscreen feminist. Aline Brosh McKenna co-wrote this script and it shows. Parker, Kinnear and Brosnan are used perfectly. Director Douglas McGrath knows just when to push on the accelerator and just when to slam on the brakes. Parker may not be the industry's most desirable woman in her forties, but she sure can put on a great show. I Don't Know How She Does It is a solid flick.