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I Don't Know How She Does It (12A)

Comedy

A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.


The critical consensus

The script is sharp, the mood both funny and touching. The performances are an understated joy.

****(*)Sarah Crompton, The Telegraph, 15/09/2011

For a film ostensibly concerned with the mess and tumult of modern life, I Don't Know How She Does It presents some pretty pat solutions.

**(*)(*)(*)Xan Brooks, The Guardian, 15/09/2011

I don't know how she gets away with it.

**(*)(*)(*)Neil Norman, Daily Express, 16/09/2011

Aline Brosh McKenna's script struggles to make sympathetic a lead character who's both needy and egomaniacal: other people seem merely bit players in her ongoing drama of self-justification.

**(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 16/09/2011

Even with mother-and-baby screenings, I don't know why you'd bother.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Mike McCahill, The Scotsman, 17/09/2011

The film is embarrassingly unfunny, its social observations coarse and dated and a picture that gives its romantic hero the name Abelhammer in order to have a final pay-off about the size of the penis beneath his kilt is inviting a patronising snort.

Philip French, The Observer, 17/09/2011

It's poisonous stuff. I'd say it was anti-women, but the men it depicts are mostly awful, too.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 18/09/2011

About as much fun as an evening of ironing.

**(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 22/09/2011


Features about I Don't Know How She Does It (12A)

Sarah Jessica Parker on dressing her character in 'I Don't Know How She Does It'

Luke Leitch, The Telegraph, 13/09/2011

I Don't Know How She Does It is the movie for unsung mothers everywhere

Allison Pearson, The Telegraph, 16/09/2011

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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