New in Town

Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. headline this romantic comedy about an ambitious Miami executive who meets the man of her dreams and begins reassessing her big-city values after accepting a temporary transfer to the middle of nowhere. When it comes to climbing the corporate latter, Lucy Hill ...more

Whether New in Town has more contempt for women, Midwesterners, blue-collar workers, or the soulless corporations that exploit them could be debated, but the movie definitely doesn't think much of its audience. Renee Zellweger stars as a snooty workaholic Miami exec with no visible personal life. She is dispatched by the heartless bigwigs at HQ to supervise a downsizing makeover at one of the company's small-town plants. It turns out to be staffed by the kind of unsophisticated, ...more

Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr. headline this romantic comedy about an ambitious Miami executive who meets the man of her dreams and begins reassessing her big-city values after accepting a temporary transfer to the middle of nowhere. When it comes to climbing the corporate latter, Lucy Hill (Zellweger) is a good few rungs above her closest competitor; she's got ambition to spare, and she cares more about driving the latest model car and filling her closet with shoes than making friends ...more