Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Directed by Wayne Wang
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
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Anyone who�s seen the inferior Pretty Woman, can easily guess where their relationship is headed, but the awareness of class issues grounds this Cinderella story.
Take the main ingredient, the fabulously popular Jennifer Lopez, put her in a shoddy retread of the already shoddy Pretty Woman, and add a cute little boy and a cute older boy and a few cynical stabs at social consciousness.
Like Pretty Woman but without the laughs.
Fortunately, the skillful hand of director Wayne Wang ("Smoke") and smart tailoring to the talents of indomitable star Jennifer Lopez help this housekeeping-service spin on "Pretty Woman" pump a surprising amount of fresh life into the formula.
His theory is stolen and confirmed by a world famous colleague, Dr. Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci, "Maid in Manhattan"), and the U.S. Government forms a team of specialists that will travel to the center of the earth to jump start "The Core."
The Manhattan of Hitch is a remarkably small world where seemingly every character, incidental or not, is connected to someone else in the film; it's neat--maybe too neat--and modeled pretty clearly along the lines of a fairy tale--like, say, Maid in Manhattan , In Good Company , or last week's professional-man-whore comedy The Wedding Date .