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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Maid in Manhattan
2002
**
Director: Wayne Wang
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci

A politician falls in love with a chambermaid who he mistakes for a hotel guest (in the most contrived fashion, I might add). He is an exceptionally open-minded Republican, she is an uncharacteristically smart working class single mom, and the film is an implausible, predictable and tired version of the Cinderella story. The stars have no chemistry.