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NUMBERS
Box Office: $93,815,117
VHS Rentals: $20,400,000
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CONSENSUS
Too blandly generic, Maid in Manhattan also suffers from a lack of chemistry between Lopez and Fiennes.
CAST & CREW
Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Kevin Wade
Directed by Wayne Wang
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SYNOPSIS
In Revolution Studios' charming romantic comedy Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez stars as a hard-working, intelligent and determined single mother who dreams of a better life. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, some language/sexual references
RUNTIME
1 hour, 44 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 13, 2002
Video: Mar 25, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Politics, Romance, Romantic Comedy, New York City
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Maid in Manhattan Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "J. Lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie, although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear: She's a pretty woman, but she's no working girl."
-- Michael Agger, SLATE
"There’s not a comedic moment in this romantic comedy."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "Fairy-tale formula, serves as a paper skeleton for some very good acting, dialogue, comedy, direction and especially charm."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"[Lopez] is completely believable in the lead. She has a great instinct for picking roles she can embody, and she gives this one a special radiance, grace and dewy-eyed credibility."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"'Carente de imaginación, mal dirigida, peor actuada y sin un ápice de romance, es una verdadera pérdida de tiempo y dinero'"
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"There's no palpable chemistry between Lopez and male lead Ralph Fiennes, plus the script by Working Girl scribe Kevin Wade is workmanlike in the extreme."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"...turns so unforgivably trite in its last 10 minutes that anyone without a fortified sweet tooth will likely go into sugar shock."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"The story is so light and sugary that were it a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, extra heavy-duty ropes would be needed to keep it from floating away."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"Suffocated at conception by its Munchausen-by-proxy mum. Punish the vehicle to adore the star."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
""Maid in Manhattan" is a charmer, a PC "Pretty Woman" that ditches the odious prostitution theme for class commentary"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"It's the sweet Cinderella story that "Pretty Woman" wanted to be."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"It's supposed to be a romantic comedy - it suffers from too much Norma Rae and not enough Pretty Woman."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"It's harmless, diverting fluff. But it's hard to imagine a more generic effort in the genre."
-- Paul Doro, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
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"Lightweight montages and fairy-tale platitudes fit the narrative like a glass slipper."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"In the affable Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez's most aggressive and most sincere attempt to take movies by storm, the diva shrewdly surrounds herself with a company of strictly A-list players."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"'it’s better to go in knowing full well what’s going to happen, but willing to let the earnestness of its execution and skill of its cast take you down a familiar road with a few twists. Cynics need not apply.'"
-- Bruce Bennett, SPECTRUM (ST. GEORGE, UTAH)
"If you think that Jennifer Lopez has shown poor judgment in planning to marry Ben Affleck, wait till you see Maid in Manhattan."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"...an airless, prepackaged Julia Roberts wannabe that stinks so badly of hard-sell image-mongering you'll wonder if Lopez's publicist should share screenwriting credit."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"Anyone who wants to start writing screenplays can just follow the same blueprint from hundreds of other films, sell it to the highest bidder and walk away without anyone truly knowing your identity."
-- Erik Childress, HOLLYWOOD BITCHSLAP
"With a romantic comedy plotline straight from the ages, this Cinderella story doesn't have a single surprise up its sleeve. But it does somehow manage to get you under its spell."
-- Rich Cline, FILM THREAT
"The title’s lameness should clue you in on how bad the movie is."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Writhing under dialogue like 'You’re from two different worlds' and 'Tonight the maid is a lie and this, this is who you are,' this schlock-filled fairy tale hits new depths of unoriginality and predictability."
-- Rachel Deahl, LOCAL PLANET WEEKLY (SPOKANE, WA)
"So brisk is Wang's pacing that none of the excellent cast are given air to breathe."
-- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. WEEKLY
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ROTTEN 31%
Avg. Rating: 5.4/10 |
"Trite, banal, cliched, mostly inoffensive."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"It's badly acted, blandly directed, and could have been scripted by someone who just graduated from elementary school."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Maid in Manhattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the road ... But as a high concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations, the movie passes inspection."
-- Michael Booth, DENVER POST
"A lovably old-school Hollywood confection."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"Everything in Maid in Manhattan is exceedingly pleasant, designed not to offend. It goes down easy, leaving virtually no aftertaste."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Maid in Manhattan proves that it's easier to change the sheets than to change hackneyed concepts when it comes to dreaming up romantic comedies."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"As saccharine as it is disposable."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Doesn't get the job done, running off the limited chemistry created by Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"A skillful, glossy, formula picture, given life by the appeal of its stars."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"These two are generating about as much chemistry as an Iraqi factory poised to receive a UN inspector."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
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"Love may have been in the air onscreen, but I certainly wasn’t feeling any of it."
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
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