Courtesy The Sunday Leader - By Sumaya Samarasinghe
Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker), keeps running and running and juggling her crazy life the best she can.
When the movie begins, we see Kate buying a ready made pie for her daughter’s school bake sale. She has just come back from an exhausting business trip and is found in the kitchen by her semi employed architect husband Richard, played by the always charming Greg Kinnear (when is that man going to ever get the role of a career?).
Kate is a hedge fund manager for an investment company in Boston. Despite not always having the time to brush her hair or clean the chocolate Nutella from her jacket, Kate is brilliant at her work and her career is flourishing at the expense of the time she spends with husband and her two small children.
Her mother in law never fails to remind her that a stronger mother’s presence would have probably made her two year old son talk sooner; but Kate seems strangely immune to those comments.
Her life is one big juggle. She tries to do all the “motherly” things by taking her kids to school and preparing their lunches while she cannot let go of the opportunity to work with Jack Abelhammer, played by a super suave but yet likable Pierce Brosnan who is perfect in his role as a hot shot business man. Kate finds herself obliged to travel regularly to New York to work with Jack and some flirtation between the two begins.
The supporting cast somehow steals the show. Kate’s friend and single mother Allison played by the gorgeous Christina Hendricks is a lawyer who addresses the camera directly when speaking about Kate; unfortunately the statements she makes are far from filled with any substance and sound as interesting as her shopping list. The best thing in the film is probably Olivia Munn as Momo, Kate’s cold hearted and workaholic brilliant second in command who loses all her cool when she discovers that she is pregnant.
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නමුත් ඉන් කිසිදාක සැබෑ යුද්ධයේ මුහුණුවර එසේත් නැත්නම් ත්රස්තවාදයේ කුරිරු ම්ලේච්ඡ බව කිසිදිනක ඉස්මතු වූයේ නැත. සිනමා කරුවා තව කෙනකුගේ මෙහෙයවීම මත යුද්ධය දුටුවේ ඒ ආකාරයට ය.
The statistics on physical child abuse are alarming. It is estimated hundreds of thousands of children are physically abused each year by a parent or close relative. Thousands die. For those who survive, the emotional trauma remains long after the external bruises have healed. Communities and the courts recognize that these emotional ‘hidden bruises’ can be treated. Early recognition and treatment is important to minimize the long term effect of physical abuse. Whenever a child says he or she has been abused, it must be taken seriously and immediately evaluated.
