Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Release date: 2002-12-20
Country: USA|Australia
Language: English
Director: Marc Lawrence
Production Co: Castle Rock Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 6.1/10
Length: 1h 41min

Storyline

Harvard educated lawyer Lucy Kelson, following in the footsteps of her lawyer parents, uses her career for social activism. She hides any sense of femininity behind her work. George Wade is the suave public face of the Manhattan-based Wade Corporation, a development firm that Lucy routinely opposes and whose true head is George's profit-oriented brother, Howard Wade. George, who has a reputation as a lady's man, has had as his legal counsel a series of beautiful female lawyers with questionable credentials, they who have more primarily acted as his casual sex partners. Needing a real lawyer, he offers Lucy the job of his legal counsel on a chance meeting. Despite warnings from her parents in working for the "enemy", Lucy, who has no intention of being the latest in his bed partners, accepts the job as she feels she can do more good from the inside, and as George, as part of the job offer, promises not to demolish a community center in a heritage building as part of a development ...

Plot Keywords

tycoon, male female relationship, baseball game, yacht, party, traffic jam, black bra, queens new york city, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, drunkenness, coney island brooklyn new york city, chrysler building manhattan new york city, lingerie slip, massage, surprise after end credits, marriage proposal, hotel, speech, street vendor

Short Review

Structurally, the film's off-kilter. The start of the relationship is rushed through, while the supposedly crucial notice period feels increasingly directionless. Which leaves the comic strand - and that, by and large, delivers.