Two Weeks Notice (2002)

A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.

Director:

Marc Lawrence

Writer:

Marc Lawrence

Stars:

Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt

2 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sandra Bullock	...	Lucy Kelson
Hugh Grant	...	George Wade
Alicia Witt	...	June Carver
Dana Ivey	...	Ruth Kelson
Robert Klein	...	Larry Kelson
Heather Burns	...	Meryl Brooks
David Haig	...	Howard Wade
Dorian Missick	...	Tony
Joseph Badalucco Jr.	...	Construction Foreman (as Joseph Badalucco)
Jonathan Dokuchitz	...	Tom
Veanne Cox	...	Melanie Corman
Janine LaManna	...	Elaine Cominsky
Iraida Polanco	...	Rosario
Charlotte Maier	...	Helen Wade
Katheryn Winnick	...	Tiffany

Storyline

Harvard educated lawyer Lucy Kelson, following in the footsteps of her lawyer parents, uses her career for social activism. She hides any sense of femininity behind her work. George Wade is the suave public face of the Manhattan-based Wade Corporation, a development firm that Lucy routinely opposes and whose true head is George's profit-oriented brother, Howard Wade. George, who has a reputation as a lady's man, has had as his legal counsel a series of beautiful female lawyers with questionable credentials, they who have more primarily acted as his casual sex partners. Needing a real lawyer, he offers Lucy the job of his legal counsel on a chance meeting. Despite warnings from her parents in working for the "enemy", Lucy, who has no intention of being the latest in his bed partners, accepts the job as she feels she can do more good from the inside, and as George, as part of the job offer, promises not to demolish a community center in a heritage building as part of a development ...

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Plot Keywords:

lawyer | female lawyer | love | new york city | divorce | 

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Taglines:

Over. Done. Finished. A comedy about love at last glance.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some sex-related humor

Details

Official Sites:

cinematrix [Hungary] Warner Bros [UK]

Country:

USA Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 December 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Untitled Marc Lawrence Project

Filming Locations:

Muttontown Country Club, East Norwich, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$14,328,494 (USA) (22 December 2002)

Gross:

$93,354,851 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Castle Rock Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Mark Feuerstein, who is listed in the credits, had all his scenes cut from the final cut of the movie, although you can see part of his head during the wedding scene as Sandra Bullock's character leaves the church.

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Goofs

During the benefit for the Children's Charity Lucy's necklace switches from side to side between shots.

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Quotes

Lucy Kelson: George, I have an ulcer, I don't sleep well, mostly because you keep calling me in the middle of the night, and if you don't call me I dream that you're gonna call me. I think about you in the shower
[George gives her a look]
Lucy Kelson: ...not in a good way, but in an I'm-so-distracted-I-can't-remember-if-I-washed-my-hair kinda way - so I'll wash my hair twice! So I have a hole in my stomach, I'm running out of shampoo and today is the first day in my life that I did not give a thousand percent on the job....

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Crazy Credits

The beginning of the credits shows pictures of Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant as children growing up.

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Connections

Referenced in On Cinema: 'The Lone Ranger' and 'Despicable Me 2' (2013)

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Soundtracks

If I Had You
Written by Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell, and Reginald Connelly (as Reg Connelly)
Performed by Dick Hyman
Courtesy of Reference Recordings

User Reviews

Screwball romantic comedy isn't dead yet

TWO WEEKS NOTICE (2002) *** Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey, Robert Klein, Dorian Missick, Heather Burns, Jason Antoon. Charming screwball romantic comedy with Bullock as an A-type/neo-hippie cum grass-roots lawyer who finds herself employed by wealthy conglomerate merger type businessman Grant and after attempting to get him to change his ways gives her titular ultimatum only to discover – you got it – they are really meant for one another. The film may be formulaic but its stars have that special, instant and utterly natural chemistry together helped with a crackling zingerfest screenplay by its director Marc Lawrence who manages to make the creaky device work even if its last act is by rote and Witt as Bullock's replacement (in more ways than one) is a pallid shadow of `All About Eve' .