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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 3650
Released: May 26, 2009 |
| Our Price: $11.86 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger stars as Lucy Hill, a high-powered executive in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle. Seeking to snag a big promotion, Lucy agrees to move to a remote Minnesota town to oversee the restructuring of a blue-collar manufacturing plant. After enduring icy roads, freezing weather and a chilly reception from the locals, she soon warms up to the small town and its people – especially the town’s handsome union representative (Harry Connick, Jr.). What begins as a job assignment becomes the best thing ever to happen to her, in this heartwarming comedy that proves that the warmest people are often in the coldest places.
Description of New In Town (Fullscreen Edition):
What defines success? For Miami executive Lucy Hill (Renee Zellweger), it's climbing the corporate ladder, so when her company needs someone to automate and reconfigure a food plant in a rural town in Minnesota, Lucy volunteers figuring the temporary move will lead to a big promotion. Intent on sweeping into town, mechanizing the factory, and reducing the staff by 50 percent, Lucy has no intention of letting anyone or anything stand in her way. Disdain doesn't begin to describe what Lucy feels about the small-town residents and their obsession with scrapbooking, propensity to bring up Jesus in casual conversation, and outdated visions of what comprises an appropriate female role model. Union leader Ted (Harry Connick Jr.), plant manager Stu (J. K. Simmons), and secretary Blanche (Siobhan Fallon) bear the brunt of Lucy's scorn, but even as she focuses on carrying out her business agenda, Lucy inexplicably finds herself drawn to those same inhabitants. As she begins to reexamine what's truly important in her life, personal relationships unexpectedly begin to vie with business success for a spot at the top of her priority list and she begins to consider whether or not these disparate ambitions must by necessity be mutually exclusive of one another. Reminiscent of Fargo with its satiric portrait of simple Mid-Western country folk, New in Town is an engaging film about ambition, self-discovery, and love that offers plenty of laughs, life lessons, and an opportunity for personal reflection. --Tami Horiuchi
New In Town (Fullscreen Edition) Reviews:
New In Town 
2009-10-18 - What a great movie!!! A delightful romantic comedy! I watched it 3 times in a row and caught something different each time. Also thoroughly enjoyed to actor and director interviews on the Special Features after watching the movie. Just hearing how they had to endure those horrible below zero weather conditions while filming this movie was increadible and makes you want to watch the movie all over again. Harry Connick Jr was his usual wonderful self and as a sweet hometown like guy (similar to the charachter he played in Hope Floats) makes me wonder where all these nice hometown guys are and how come I can't find someone sweet like that!!! Renee Zellweger was fantastic too and played a very sweet and funny roll! And the way the hometown people pulled together makes you hope there is still that "we can do it" attitude and spirit still somewhere in America. Tapioca pudding, anyone???
Cute Movie 
2009-10-14 - Very predictable but cute at the same time. I like Renee Zellweger and enjoy seeing her fall in love on screen which is something she does the great majority of the time in her movies. The movie was ok.
Awesome movie!
2009-10-09 - I liked this movie because it was clean enough for the whole family to watch AND it had a great story line- funny, sweet, romantic- everything you want in a feel-good movie :)
New in Town
2009-10-03 - Great comedy and romance. Renee and Harry have good chemistry! Hometown kind of movie. Funny situations and good old fashion humor! Spectacular picture quality. Blu Ray rocks!
"Oh for crying in the beer cheese soup!" 
2009-09-29 - I took my parents to see this movie in the theaters, and we all loved it. I'm from a small town in Minnesota, not unlike the portrayal of New Ulm (a real town, unlike Golden Girls' Rose's (played by Betty White) St. Olaf) I think to truly appreciate this movie you need to be from Minnesota, otherwise it's just another dumb rom-com. But when you get the jokes from the inside it can't be beat!
Four stars for a somewhat realistic and 100% funny look at small town Minnesota life. I'm knocking it one star from being a typical rom-com, which people who aren't from the middle of nowhere in the frozen tundra might not get.
