Life is generally going well for Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford). He’s been running the computer system at his bank for a while now, and it looks like things are on track for the merger to go through, meaning that the small 26-bank operation is about to become part of a much larger company.
The only bad part about that is that it means that he won’t be a part of the day-to-day operations any longer. But it does mean that he can slow down and take some time with his family, and no one will be sad about that. It’s too bad that some other people have other plans for him – and his family – before this can all go through.
It seems that Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) has decided to make a play for some of the bank’s money, and he’s targeted Jack in order to get at it. After all, why go directly to the money, when you can go after the man who protects the money instead?
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Comedy on September 16th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This follow-up to 2001’s Legally Blonde starts off with a scrapbook that walks you through the first movie in an effort to bring back the magic. It almost completely fails, but it is sadly about as close as it gets.
What made the first movie work was that it was completely unexpected and it was just a fun ride. The second time through is never as much fun, though admittedly the original is nearly as good on subsequent viewings.
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Drama on April 19th, 2006 by Chad Everett
The tagline for this movie says that it is a comedy that takes place in 24 hours on the Sunset Strip in 1972. I think those facts are correct. Except I don’t recall laughing. So you might not want to consider it a comedy. The trailer mentions that the lives of six friends intersect, except some of them don’t seem to know each other, so I don’t know if that’s exactly true either.
What does appear to be true is that a handful of people (unless you only have five fingers per hand, in which case it might be two handfuls) are living in or about 1972 in the Sunset Strip area of Hollywood, and this movie tells you about what they do during a roughly 24 hour period. What it doesn’t do is say why you should care, and in the end, there didn’t seem to be much reason why you should.
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