Genres:
Comedy
Romance
Theatrical Release: 12/13/2002(USA
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time:
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Can a wealthy Republican politician find happiness with a chambermaid from the Bronx? One man is about to find out, though he hardly realizes it at first, in this
romantic comedy from director
Wayne Wang.
Marisa Ventura (
Jennifer Lopez) is a single mother who is raising her gifted but under-confident son
Ty (
Tyler Garcia Posey) on her own, with some help from her mother
Veronica (
Priscilla Lopez), after divorcing her husband.
Marisa works as a housekeeper at the exclusive Beresford Hotel in Manhattan, where her boss
Paula Burns (
Frances Conroy) and chief butler
Lionel Bloch (
Bob Hoskins) urge
Marisa and her best friend and fellow maid
Stephanie (
Marissa Matrone) to be as efficient and inconspicuous as possible. One day, while cleaning the room of noted socialite
Caroline Lane (
Natasha Richardson),
Stephanie spies a beautiful designer gown and dares
Marisa to try it on; against her better judgment, she does, and while all dolled up, she bumps into
Christopher Marshall (
Ralph Fiennes), a wealthy and well-bred bachelor who is running for the Senate. Immediately charmed,
Chris asks
Marisa to join him for a walk in Central Park, assuming she's the blue-blooded
Caroline.
Marisa manages to join
Chris for the afternoon, with
Ty in tow, and
Chris finds himself quite taken with
Marisa's beauty and down-to-earth personality, as well as
Ty's precocious interest in politics.
Chris later calls
Caroline's room to set up a lunch date, but soon discovers the stuffy
Ms. Lane is not the woman he met before.
Marisa is also attracted to
Chris, but while her friends encourage her to pursue a romance,
Veronica believes her daughter is asking for trouble by trying to win a man so far out of her social strata. The supporting cast also includes
Stanley Tucci and
Amy Sedaris. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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