I don't know how she does it - 2011

This weekend saw the opening of the latest Sarah Jessica Parker film,  I Don't Know How She Does It.  

Plot: Kate is a mother of two, married to a successful man in Boston, juggling a high stress career.  With the help of her best friend who is a single mom and her assistant who never takes a break for anything, Kate has been able to keep her head above water long enough to get a major pitch which would add two more months of travel time to her already  whirlwind schedule. Her marriage starts to suffer, her kids spend more time with the nanny then she ever dreamed they could, her new partner becomes a second husband and her assistant gets pregnant.


This is the woman who brought beloved Carrie Bradshaw to millions on SATC so bets are high that she'd be able to turn another book's lead into movie magic.
I've been waiting for months for this film and decided to go yesterday.  I wish I had just waited, as for some reason there were a group of 8 year old girls in the cinema.  I'll ask before I do anything else,  how does a group of 8 year olds get into a movie without a parent for starters and into a movie that is not G rated? 

The movie played a bit like a Sunday night movie of the week. The jokes were all used for the trailer and it didn't have the kind of punch I was expecting.
It does however, address the question of how far are we willing to go before we say enough.  The film deals with relationships on all levels, marriage, friendship, business, children and self.

The main "love story" in this film is between the lead and her two business partners; Jack who she spends over half her time with, and Momo her assistant who is about the only one who sees both sides of her life.  In a sense, she becomes "wife and mother" to these two co-workers without really loosing herself in the process.

And if you're wondering what this has to do with this blog other then the Sarah Jessica Parker element; it's the relationships that matter here.  With the way we interact in life right now, most of us have these emotional affairs and non-family-families that we rely on more then we might even realize. {Bridget Jones's Diary made famous the term  Urban Family to describe this}