You’d think ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’ would just be what most people say when asked how Sarah Jessica Parker stays famous, but now it’s the title of her new movie. The first trailer has appeared, and you can watch it below. She plays Kate Reddy, who devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard (Greg Kinnear) and their two young children. It’s a non-stop balancing act, which gets toughter when Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, and Richard also wins the new job he’s been hoping for – meaning both will be spreading themselves even thinner.
I do get confused as to why Hollywood thinks audiences will care about the difficulties rich people have juggling their lives, children, careers and still finding time to roll around in giant piles of crash, but it often seems to work. If SJP was having difficulty ‘cos she was working in a diner in a dead-end town, with a feckless hubby who can’t/won’t get a job and two kids with ADHD, that might be interesting, but sadly no, I Don’t Know How She Does It is yet another installment of America’s obsession with the family troubles of people who should just hire a frigging nanny. The film is due out September 16th.