Moral Rating: | not reviewed |
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Primary Audience: | Adults |
Genre: | Romance comedy |
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Year of Release: | 2006 |
USA Release: |
February 3, 2006 (wide) |
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Featuring | Simon Baker, Sanaa Lathan, Golden Brooks, K.C. Clyde, Mike Epps, Donald Faison, Taraji P. Henson, Blair Underwood, Alfre Woodard |
Director |
Sanaa Hamri |
Producer | Preston L. Holmes, Dwight Williams, Stephanie Allain |
Distributor |
Focus Features, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal/Comcast |
“She had it all under control. Except her heart.”
Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “A romantic comedy about finding love where it’s least expected, ‘Something New’ marks the feature directorial debut of Sanaa Hamri. If love is an adventure, it’s one yet to be embarked upon by Kenya Denise McQueen (Sanaa Lathan). A beautiful L.A. career woman, Kenya works as a senior manager at a prestigious accounting firm, and is on the verge of making partner. But she has yet to find her own partner and a fulfilling personal life. It’s not that she’s stopped looking; her (mental) checklist is at the ready.
After another Valentine’s Day spent working late, Kenya agrees to a blind date with Brian Kelly (Simon Baker), a sexy and free-spirited landscape architect who turns out to be not exactly what she’d pictured for herself. Then again, she does need the yard of her new house fixed up… Her girlfriends Cheryl, Suzzette, and Nedra (Wendy Raquel Robinson, Golden Brooks, Taraji P. Henson) are there for her with advice, while Cheryl’s new beau Walter (Mike Epps) shares a male perspective with Brian. Kenya’s socially prominent parents Joyce and Edmond (Alfred Woodard, Earl Billings) and womanizing younger brother Nelson (Donald Faison) also voice their own opinions. But it’s when her perfect match, Mark (Blair Underwood), enters the picture that Kenya is truly thrown into confusion. Ultimately, Kenya has to decide for herself and follow her heart—no matter where it takes her.”
Still, it was the typical 'Hollywood Pushing PG-13 As Far As It Will Go' type of film, which honestly angered me. So much of the inappropriate things that were obviously added, either for shock value or because sex sells, could have been cut, and the movie would have been much better. Things to watch out for: