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Top Movies Eight Below Date Movie The Pink Panther Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall Freedomland When a Stranger Calls Big Momma's House 2 Nanny McPhee New Releases Curious George Final Destination 3 Firewall The Pink Panther Date Movie Eight Below Freedomland Something New Failure to Launch When a Stranger Calls Top Celebs Reese Witherspoon Brad Pitt Paris Hilton Mariah Carey Lindsay Lohan Scarlett Johansson Phil Collins Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Jodie Marsh	Maid In Manhattan  Release Date - December 13, 2002.  Distributor - Columbia Pictures  Type - PG-13 for (for some language/sexual references).  Writer : John Hughes  Producer : John Hughes, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Joe Roth, Julia Roberts  Director : Wayne Wang  Starring : Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Di Quon, Tyler Posey  Synopsis Jennifer Lopez is Marisa Ventura, a street savvy, independent single mother who lives in the Bronx with her son, Ty, and works as a maid in a first class Manhattan hotel. Marisa dreams of a better life but has learned to depend upon her own wits to get her there. Enter Christopher Hall, a handsome, debonair heir to an American political dynasty. Chris is in New York for a week of glad-handing with party big shots and is staying in the hotel where Marisa works. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, the two meet. Marisa soon finds herself gaining insight into the life of a man she might otherwise have judged from a distance. When her true identity is revealed, however, the truth sets in as to the disparity in their lives.  Critic Reviews The Cinderella story gets yet another makeover in "Maid in Manhattan," a transparent attempt to do for Jennifer Lopez what "Pretty Woman" did for Julia Roberts and send her soaring into the stratosphere of movie stardom. (How transparent an attempt? Roberts' former agent is one of the producers.) Both Lopez and the movie remain solidly earthbound, however, in an atmosphere so thick with cynical calculation you can practically see the actors figuring out their percentage of the potential net between lines. Lopez plays Marissa, a single mom and hard-working maid in a high-end Manhattan hotel, who spends her days trying to be properly subservient to the hotel's wealthy, demanding and patronizing guests. The hotel's cardinal rule for its maids is "strive to be invisible," but that's just not going to happen when you look like J. Lo, bootylicious enough for the Grammys even before a co-worker talks her into trying on a guest's designer clothing. Outfitted in white cashmere Dolce & Gabbana (the product placement is not exactly subtle), Marissa wows another hotel guest, Chris Marshall (Ralph Fiennes), a scion of a Republican political family who thinks she's one of his tribe. She lets the fiction go on long enough for them to fall in love -- and then she has to figure a way out of the mess. Fiennes, meanwhile, looks like he's trying to figure a way out of the movie. The poor guy looks scared, and he actually grimaces a few times when he's supposed to be smiling adoringly at Lopez. Perhaps he has realized that the two of them have zero chemistry, and that his robust co-star makes him look like something she considered eating for lunch, and then decided probably wouldn't agree with her. The supporting actors fare better: Natasha Richardson enjoys herself tremendously playing a conniving socialite, Stanley Tucci is amusing as a put-upon campaign manager and Bob Hoskins manages to create a moment of genuine emotion as a proud butler. Best of all is Tyler Posey as Lopez's bright young son, who has a bizarre obsession with Richard Nixon. Speaking of Nixon, he famously saw political conspiracies everywhere he looked, so it's worth asking: Who talked director Wayne Wang and writer Kevin Wade into resolving the prickly and age-old American class resentments in this movie with a happy merger of a patrician Republican and a single, ethnic, working-class mom? The movie's subtext reads as if its budget was covered by the last of the GOP's soft campaign money. Where's Deep Throat when you really need him?   For rating reasons : filmrating.com, mpaa.com                                    For Parents : Parentalguide.com
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