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When I first heard about the film I thought that it wouldn’t really have much of a storyline but definitely fancied to watch it. I thought to myself: ‘How can there possibly be a storyline about a woman who has a family and a good career?’ When I walked into the cinema and went to ‘screen 10’ to watch the film, my head was filled with, still, ‘where is this storyline?’

However, it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. The story was about a woman named Kim Reddy who is a Mother of 2 and has a full time career working with a financial company. She struggles to balance having a fully committed job, two young children and a much loving husband. Kim is usually jetting off to different states for work meetings or trying out new projects but when she gets an amazing opportunity to carry out her project in New York working with a new, dashing colleague, Jack Abelhammer.

Throughout the film, it gives us a commentary with who-is-who and a bit about them. Kim introduces some characters in the film including her best friend Alison, her assistant Momo Hahn (who is reluctant to starting a family or even marrying someone), Wendy Best who is the ‘I’m a Mum and I stay at home all day’ kind of woman and Chris Bunce, a man who is a co-worker of Kim and envies her as she gets more job opportunities than him, even though she is a Mother of 2. At the beginning I thought that that would make it a bit cheesy and child-like. Given that the film was a 12A and a romantic rom-com based for young adults, it was weird to think, that I thought that it would be child-like. Again, however, I was proved wrong and only had this feeling at the start and I even felt that it helped me memorise the characters more.

Kim has to fly over to New York to meet Jack on a regular basis, leaving her family life behind. As Kim is leaving her children and husband behind and putting her career first, it is the beginning of her missing her children’s mile stones such as her youngest son’s first hair cut. Richard becomes annoyed with the fact that she is missing all of these times that she will never get to see again and starts to think that Kim is having a fling with her flirtatious colleague Jack.

Overall, I think that this is a feel-good flick and definitely one for a girl’s night out at the cinema. It’s not a film that will satisfy everyone but is a really good film for the rom-com lovers.

Claire Hamilton