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Synopsis: Helen Harris is living the life she's always dreamed of: her career at a top modeling agency is on the rise; she spends her days at fashion shows and her nights at the city's hottest clubs. But her carefree lifestyle comes to a screeching halt when one phone call changes everything. Helen soon finds herself responsible for her sister's children: 15-year-old Audrey, 10-year-old Henry, and 5-year-old Sarah. No one doubts that Helen is the coolest aunt in New York, but what does this glamour girl know about raising kids? The fun begins as Helen goes through the transformation from super-hip to super-mom, but she quickly finds that dancing at 3a.m. doesn't mix with getting kids to school on time--advice that Helen's older sister, Jenny, is only too quick to dish out. Along the way, Helen finds support in the most unusual place--with Dan Parker, the handsome young pastor and principal of the kids' new school--and realizes the choice she has to make is between the life she's always loved and
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Garry Marshall
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
PG-13
Year:
2004
119 min
$37,379,556
Website
621 Views


You may not believe in me

But I believe in you

So I still take the trash out

Does that make me too normal for you?

So dig a little deeper

Cos you still don't get it yet

See me licking my lips,

need a primitive fix

And I'll make, I'll make you love me

I am extraordinary

I am just your ordinary

( "Sister Sunshine"

by Five For Fighting)

Hey, yeah, sister sunshine

You've been living in the sky,

are you ever gonna come on down?

Hey, yeah, sister sunshine

Show me love

I prayed

though I've never been a God man

You never know,

maybe it just might mean something

I switched back,

see if anything was going right

The washer called me

and bled me off

Said, "You're gonna save one,

better save yourself"

"And you'll never know me

till you find your own piece of life"

Hey, yeah, sister sunshine

You've been living in the sky,

are you ever gonna come on down?

Hey, yeah, sister sunshine

You've been living in the sky,

are you ever gonna come on down?

Hey, yeah, sister sunshine

You've been living in the sky,

are you ever gonna come on down?

Hey, yeah, sister sunshine

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Jack Amiel

Jack Amiel is an American TV writer, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for co-creating Cinemax's period medical drama The Knick, and for writing the films Raising Helen (2004), The Shaggy Dog (2006) and Big Miracle (2012), all with writing partner Michael Begler. more…

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