Two Weeks Notice

 

Two Weeks Notice 2002

• Director: Marc Lawrence
• Seen by this director: Music and Lyrics, Miss Congeniality 1&2
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Kline, Heather Burns, David Haig, Dorian Missick, Jason Anroon
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Sandra Bullock – Gravity, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Crash, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Miss Congeniality 1&2, 28 Days, Practical Magic, A Time to Kill, While You Were Sleeping, Speed
• Hugh Grant – The Gentlemen, Cloud Atlas, Music and Lyrics, American Dreamz, Love Actually, About a Boy, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Notting Hill, Sense and Sensibility, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Remains of the Day, Impromptu
• Heather Byrns – Manchester by the Sea, Miss Congeniality 1&2, You’ve Got Mail
• David Haig – Hustle, Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Why? Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant
• Seen: 8 February 2023      

       Lucy (Bullock) is a Harvard attorney determined, to the point of sit-down strikes and jail, to stop Big Business destroying the Community Centre. Big Business, in the shape of George (Grant), through minimally believable circumstances, hires her. Lucy is extremely intelligent and eloquent but quite square. George is a suave but a shallow womanising extremely rich snob.

       Guess what happens. The question is, will it be entertaining to watch?

       Bullock is being Bullock, Grant is being Grant and that’s what gives this mediocre story some entertainment value. 

3* of 5