Film Review: Why I Don’t Know How She Does It Is Too Superficial to Be Taken Seriously and Too Serious to Be Fun
I Don’t Know How She Does It. Even the title is all about multitasking, as it also doubles as the basic premise for this adaptation of the best-selling Allison Pearson novel of the same name. I Don’t Know How She Does It stars Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) as Kate Reddy, a very harried, very happily married (to husband Richard played by Greg Kinnear) working mother of two. The story follows Parker’s Kate as she tries to juggle her career, marriage, and child-rearing duties during an intense three month period in which she has to face the additional challenge of a career-making project and all the extra work and time away from her family it entails — not to mention the lure of a little hanky-panky with her handsome and debonair project head, Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan).
I Don’t Know How She Does It will serve as the comfort food movie du jour for many working mothers. It celebrates them for all their hard work and sacrifice, and in all their frazzled glory. That being said, the movie isn’t all sunshine and roses. No, it makes sure to show these ladies’ for who they really are foibles, follies, and all, but for the most part, they do it in a way that plays up the laughs (usually through inside jokes that resonate the most with its target…
