I Don't Know How She Does It Page #7

Synopsis: Opportunist Chris Bunce remains Pacific coast investment firm CEO Clark Cooper's favorite by being available always, also when he can snatch up deals Kate Reddy largely set up but lost giving priority to husband Richard and their kids. She gets a dream chance working for New York tycoon Jack Abelhammer, who proves most accommodating, amused by her faults, generous and able to sort of draw her back into enjoying life, so it looks like she'll have to choose when he offers her an investment fund partnership.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Douglas McGrath
Production: The Weinstein Co.
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.9
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
16%
PG-13
Year:
2011
89 min
$9,500,000
Website
1,302 Views


I'll be in town.

Wife cooks dinner

for about 20 people.

Makes three turkeys.

So if you need me

to cover for you,

I'll be right here.

Three turkeys? Wow.

That's... that's amazing.

You know, why not give Abelhammer

my cell in case he needs anything.

Happy Thanksgiving.

This is what you need

to know about Bunce.

He's one of those guys

who loves to come in at the end

and take the credit after someone else

has done all the hard work.

If I slip up even a little,

he is so ready to pounce.

I make a great turkey, too,

by the way.

It's delicious.

Everyone says my breast

is very juicy.

- Ah!

- Oh, my God.

You like the mule

in Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

OK, I got the changing pad

and the portable high chair,

the porta-crib, bibs,

Thomas the Tank Engine

cereal bowls.

There's no reason to pack.

Everyone knows that you buy

two of everything,

you keep one set at the country house.

Boom. Done.

I swear to God, Louis XIV

traveled lighter than we do.

You ready to have fun?

Well, I like the spirit.

Just don't tell your mother about my new

project or that I'm on deadline, OK?

What do you wanna do?

You wanna lie to her?

Hm... let's see. Yes.

Oh, OK. All right.

- Here. Ah!

- That's not gonna wanna stay.

- One, two, three...

- Whoo!

Don't worry about that.

- That's ours, right?

- Oh, no.

Who knows the lyrics?

- You do, Daddy.

- Come on. I love this part.

# Bears heavy on my mind

Take it, Kate.

OK.

# Then I look at you

Emily, come on!

# And the world's

all right with me

That's right.

Take it, Kate.

# Just one look at you

What are we gonna do?

# And I know it's gonna be

- Here we go!

- One, two...

- # A lovely day

- Oh!

Look at this.

We're on a trip.

We're all in one place.

Right?

You're right.

You're right, this is great.

- It's nice.

- Really.

- You're buzzing.

- Oh.

- Sorry.

- No, it's all right.

I'm gonna silence this thing.

And it's... quiet.

- And I'm not gonna work.

- Sounds good. OK.

I'm...

I am not working.

See?

- Don't need it.

- Are you sure?

- Yes!

- It's OK.

If you need to take the call,

it's fine.

- I don't need it.

- OK.

Oh!

That's a mistake!

Big mistake! Who wants some?

- Come over here!

- Ah!

- Get him, get him!

- Ah!

- Those look great.

- Thank you.

Thanks for doing this.

Those smell delicious, Kate.

- So a bunch of snowmen are standing...

- Oh, no!

A bunch of snowmen are standing

in front of the barbershop,

- and one of them says...

- Who smells carrots.

- Uh... Oh, come on!

- Same one as last year.

- Thank you.

- You ruined my joke!

- You ruined my joke!

... 30 years ago...

That's my joke!

- I don't get it.

- Because of their nose.

- 'Cause their nose is a carrot.

- You know the pond is frozen.

So if anybody wants

to go skating tomorrow...

Well, I promised Em that we were gonna

build a snowman tomorrow, right?

- Yeah.

- We can do it at the pond.

Oh, that was great,

Mom. What did you do this year?

I ran out of canned

pumpkin, so I had to...

You used cream?

Yeah.

I used light cream,

- but heavy cream's better.

- You OK?

- Yeah, she's here.

- Yeah.

Kate, it's for you.

It's someone named Nono.

Oh, no, Momo.

I'm gonna take it in the other room.

Momo,

what does that mean?

- Are you OK?

- What is the matter with you?

- I left you 100 messages.

- OK.

- Jack is trying to reach you.

- OK, I'll check my phone.

Remember Barry Brentwood?

- He was arrested.

- Mm.

- What?

- He's going to prison.

- Really?

- Barry Brentwood?

- Barry Brentwood.

- What did he do?

Oh, my God.

He got into something

with a drug dealer, and they

hired him to kill somebody...

Oh, no.

Who did he kill?

I don't know!

I don't know. Somebody...

Hi, Jack, sorry I missed your

calls. My cell reception is...

Um, anyway, what's up?

Sorry, Kate.

Harcourt's schedule changed.

- He can only hear the pitch tomorrow.

- Oh, sh*t.

Well, um, when did that happen?

If you can't make it,

maybe Bunce can take over.

So Harcourt has to go to Hong Kong

the day after tomorrow for a week.

There's some emergency

with the Asian brokerage house.

Which means that tomorrow

morning is our only shot

to get this thing in front of him.

But Jack said Bunce would do it.

- Let him go.

- Come on, Richard.

I can't let Bunce take this. You know

how hard I've been working on it.

But I can't control

how and where we pitch it.

It's not my fault. I have... I have

planned everything so this exact thing

would not happen.

But we were supposed

to make a snowman.

Sweetie, I know. Listen.

The very next time there's snow,

we're gonna make a snowman.

I promise. OK?

You already promised.

Hey. Bye-bye, bunny.

- Bye-bye, Mama.

- Oh, my God!

You spoke!

Ben!

You said, "Bye-bye, Mama. "

- He spoke!

- "Bye-bye, Mama. "

Well, it'll come in handy.

- Richard, I'm...

- You gotta go, Kate.

And we'll talk about it

when you get back, OK?

Bye.

Oh, we all heard

about Thanksgiving.

Leaving right after dinner?

Seriously? Who does that?

No, I prefer

to be with my family.

You know, clean up while my husband

and his friends watch football

and I chase after the kids because

they've had eight slices of pecan pie.

Then I make 11 sandwiches of leftovers

for everybody for the next day.

Listen to my mother-in-law yammer on

for the 15th time

that my stuffing was too dry.

Like I've never

heard that one before.

I just...

It's family, and I love it.

I love it.

I'm feeling

much better, thanks.

- Let's focus on the proposal.

- OK.

I was thinking we could

start with an overview

of dividend payers

versus non-payers.

Whoa! Careful!

Or you could... throw up

again a few more times.

- Momo, you OK?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

This does not

feel like a miracle.

Oh! Don't worry, morning sickness

only lasts about, um,

nine months.

Ooh, oh, yeah.

I've been there.

- You OK?

- Don't I look OK? Let's walk.

Oh, Momo! Momo, Momo! Momo!

Oh, my God!

It's official.

I'm disgusting.

How did this happen?

Don't answer that.

I didn't get any

sleep last night.

I think this baby's

on a treadmill.

Thank you.

- Hey. Hey, good morning.

- Good morning.

Thank you for your lovely note

and the room is beautiful.

You know what? You knocked yourself out

getting this thing right.

You deserve a nice room

and if this thing has any chance at all

with Harcourt, it's gonna be because

- of the way you pitch it.

- He's ready for you.

Let's go.

Remember, we're a great team, Bill.

Good morning.

We're here today

to talk about possibility.

The possibility of a

new financial product

that could restore some of the faith

we've lost with our customer.

We wanna show them that we understand,

that we wanna make money

for them as well as for us.

So I would like to start off

with a few charts

showing you the dividend

base strategy we've devised.

Momo!

- Which will show you...

- The PowerPoint presentation

was going really well.

No one could tell Momo and I

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Aline Brosh McKenna

Aline Brosh McKenna (born August 2, 1967) is a French-born American screenwriter and producer. She is known for writing The Devil Wears Prada (2006), 27 Dresses (2008), Morning Glory (2010) and We Bought a Zoo (2011), and for co-creating The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. more…

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