Harvard educated lawyer Lucy Kelson, following in the footsteps of her lawyer parents, uses her career for social activism. She hides any sense of femininity behind her work. George Wade is the suave public face of the Manhattan-based Wade Corporation, a development firm that Lucy routinely opposes and whose true head is George’s profit-oriented brother, Howard Wade. George, who has a reputation as a lady’s man, has had as his legal counsel a series of beautiful female lawyers with questionable credentials, they who have more primarily acted as his casual sex partners. Needing a real lawyer, he offers Lucy the job of his legal counsel on a chance meeting. Despite warnings from her parents in working for the “enemy”, Lucy, who has no intention of being the latest in his bed partners, accepts the job as she feels she can do more good from the inside, and as George, as part of the job offer, promises not to demolish a community center in a heritage building as part of a development …
Release Date: 20 December 2002Runtime: 101 min
Stars:
- Alicia Witt
- Charlotte Maier
- Dana Ivey
- David Haig
- Dorian Missick
- Heather Burns
- Hugh Grant
- Iraida Polanco
- Janine LaManna
- Jonathan Dokuchitz
- Joseph Badalucco Jr.
- Katheryn Winnick
- Robert Klein
- Sandra Bullock
- Veanne Cox
Director: Marc Lawrence