Two Weeks Notice

Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock basically play their patented movie selves in this over-familiar romantic comedy about corporate greed, social responsibility, personal promises and budding love. Millionaire George Wade (Grant as a charming, irresponsible womanizer) is the spokesperson for New York’s leading real-estate development firm, which is actually controlled by his brother. Passionate activist attorney Lucy Kelson (Bullock as a cute, feisty, long-suffering bachelorette) takes the job as Wade Corporation lawyer in a contrived plot twist that leaves her babysitting the self-absorbed George and fighting for good causes from within the lumbering power structure. Standup comedian Robert Klein continues his sweater-and-slippers slip into senior citizenship as Lucy’s father. The movie is directed by Marc Lawrence, who wrote the Bullock and Ben Affleck valentine Forces of Nature.