TRCC Reviews
Picture Perfect Synopsis: A young advertising executive’s life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met. Kate (Jennifer Aniston) is a career-driven woman desperate to move up the ladder in her marketing firm. When she finds out her boss is more likely to promote married employees, she’s convinced by her best friend to use a photo of an acquaintance named Nick (Jay Mohr) and claim he’s her fiancé. When Nick becomes famous for saving a little girl in a fire, Kate’s boss wants to meet him,…
The Giant Mechanical Man Synopsis: An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him. When Tim, a street performer, is dumped by his girlfriend for having no direction in his life, he gets a job at the local zoo where he meets Janice, a young woman who feels equally as lost. The two begin to connect but are stymied by Janice’s overbearing younger sister and a self-help guru who is convinced his book is exactly what Janice needs. The Giant Mechanical Man was a pleasant little rom-com. I had only…
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Synopsis: Mia still coming to terms with her life as a princess, graduates from Princeton. She returns to Genovia, and her best friend, Lilly, goes with her. When they arrive, Mia’s grandmother (Julie Andrews) informs her that Mia cannot become queen unless she is married within 30 days. Nicholas Devereaux (Chris Pine) is one of her top suitors, though he is more interested in the crown than Mia. But when Nicholas realizes he loves Mia, he decides not to pursue her. Now a college graduate, Mia (Anne Hathaway) returns home to Genovia to prepare…
10 Things I Hate About You Synopsis: A pretty, popular teenager can’t go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.
Love Wedding Repeat Synopsis: While trying to make his sister’s wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away in alternate versions of the same day. In Italy, it’s Hayley’s (Eleanor Tomlinson) wedding day. Her brother Jack (Sam Claflin) is tasked with trying to keep the event from spiraling out of control while also attempting to reconnect with Dina (Olivia Munn), a friend of Hayley’s from America. The two had met three years earlier, but circumstances kept them from further pursuing their…
The Clapper: 15 minutes of fame destroys the life of a man who works as a clapper in television.
The Bounty Hunter Synopsis: A bounty hunter learns that his next target is his ex-wife, a reporter working on a murder cover-up. Soon after their reunion, the always-at-odds duo find themselves on a run-for-their-lives adventure.
Kate & Leopold Synopsis: An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive. When Leopold (Hugh Jackman), an 18th-century duke (and eventual inventor of the elevator), spots a man out of time, he gives chase and falls through a portal to present-day New York City. The man is named Stuart (Liev Schreiber), a scientist who discovered a rip in the fabric of time and used it to explore the past. Marketing executive Kate McKay (Meg Ryan) is his ex-girlfriend who lives in the same apartment building as Stuart.…
Enchanted: A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil Queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.