Baby Boom

January 30, 2009 at 12:19pm PST

Tags: Baby Boom, Big Business, C. Jay Cox, Harry Connick Jr., Jonas Elmer, Ken Rance, New in Town, Renee Zellweger, See it or Skip it, Sweet Home Alabama

You’ve seen New in Town before, but it was called Baby Boom, Sweet Home Alabama or Big Business and it was actually funny.

Squishy faced, self-important Renee Zellweger stars in this predictable, tired piece of drivel as Lucy Hill, a big time Miami exec sent to the frozen Minnesota tundra by bosses we assume find her as unpalatable as we do to shut down the local food manufacturing plant. Its big city girl meets small town folks, and she finds the little people have big ol’ hearts.

Cue swelling music.

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