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:

donald trump character | reference to the new york mets | reference to the san francisco giants | community center | protest | 

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Taglines:

A story about a man who had the girl of his dreams, and never even noticed.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some sex-related humor

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sandra Bullock almost worked with another actor called Hugh but she turned it down. That actor was Hugh Jackman and the film was Kate and Leopold (2001).

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Goofs

As George and Lucy are walking towards the RV while stuck in traffic on the overpass you can see a white lane line dividing the two directions of travel. A white lane line between two lanes indicates both lanes are in the same direction of travel - a yellow line would indicate opposite directions as attempted here.

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Quotes

Meryl Brooks: Come on, I've known you since Brownies, and the only time I ever saw you cry was when Bush won.
Lucy Kelson: Which one?
Meryl Brooks: Well, both of them.

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Crazy Credits

At the end of the credits, a picture postcard is shown with a rendering of the Coney Island Towers project, with the community center preserved as part of the design.

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Connections

Featured in Romantic Comedy (2019)

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Soundtracks

Comin' Home Baby
Written by Bob Dorough and Ben Tucker
Performed by Mel Tormé (as Mel Torme)
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

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' .

Details

Official Sites:

Warner Bros.

Country:

USA Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 December 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Untitled Marc Lawrence Project

Filming Locations:

54 Greene St, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,328,494, 22 December 2002

Gross USA:

$93,354,851

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$199,043,242

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