I Don't Know How She Does It
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38 out of 100

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3.7 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

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  • Summary: Kate Reddy devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard and their two young children. It's a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate's acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison performs on a daily basis, and that Kate's super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate Momo fully intends to avoid. When Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, Richard also wins the new job he's been hoping for—and both will be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate's charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who begins to prove an unexpected source of temptation. Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson. (The Weinstein Company)
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 31
  3. Negative: 11 out of 31
  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    Sep 15, 2011
    75
    In describing the conflict of a woman who has it all without enjoying it all, Pearson's book had teeth. McKenna's screenplay has only a smile. But is it ever good to laugh.
  2. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Amy Nicholson
    Sep 13, 2011
    60
    Director Douglas McGrath's empathy rescues it from the brink of disaster porn - it's so good-hearted and optimistic that a swath of stressed out moms will feel the flick speaks directly to them, which it does.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    Sep 16, 2011
    60
    From the wry narration to the girlish mannerisms, Parker really does turn this film into "Sex and the Kiddies."
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Hayley Kaufman
    Sep 15, 2011
    38
    Occasionally veers so far into absurdity that it manages to make its central character - capable, smart, working mom Kate Reddy - look like a nitwit.

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  1. allmovies
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    Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Munn and Christina Hendricks star in I Don't Know How She Does It, a comedy from director Douglas McGrath (Emma, Infamous) and producer Donna Gigliotti (The Reader, Let Me In). Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller by Allison Pearson, I Don't Know How She Does It follows a Boston-based working mother trying desperately to juggle marriage, children, and a high-stress job.… Expand
  2. Bart
    0
    My wife made me go see this, and it was awful at best. Horse faced SJP needs to retire. All the years of 'cute' head tilting and looks no longer holds any magic or interest for viewers. It would have been more enjoyable to stay at home and eat a pool of my own vomit than watch this film. No entertainment value at all, just a vanity piece SJP did for herself trying to pretend she is still young and attractive, which she is well passed.… Expand
  3. tillyho
    0
    Absolutely Terrible all people involved in this movie should retire to President Nixons Island Party But seriously it was that bad id rather climb a mountain of people poop… Expand

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