A Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.A Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.A Miami, Florida businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a small Minnesota town.
Nancy Jane Drake
- Flo
- (as Nancy Drake)
Stewart J. Zully
- Wallace Miller
- (as Stewart Zully)
Ordena Stephens
- Leslie
- (as Ordena Stephens-Thompson)
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- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJ.K. Simmons didn't wear a fat suit for his role as Stu Kopenhafer. He gained more than forty pounds.
- GoofsOpening shots of New Ulm include Manitoba highway signs. Manitoba is over 300 miles from New Ulm.
- Quotes
Ted Mitchell: Remember, whatever you do to my daughter, I do to you
- Crazy creditsDuring the closing credits, we're shown what is supposed to be the completed version of the scrapper book that Siobhan Hogan's character gives to Renee' Zellweger's. Various stills from the movie are shown as pictures 'pasted' into the scrapbook, along with humorous tag lines on each (page).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Making 'New in Town' in Winnipeg, Canada (2009)
- SoundtracksSteer
Written by Missy Higgins (as Melissa Higgins)
Performed by Missy Higgins
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records, Inc.
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film And TV Licensing
Featured review
I Loved This Movie and Story
I have no clue why some of these unfair and off balance reviews. I was expecting this movie to be very simple and average, I was pleasantly surprised and found it very funny and to have a great story line and heart warming lesson or two. Perhaps some of the stereotyping offended some? I thought it was dead on and rather funny. The campy, just rolled outta bed, let's make some home made crafts and pudding Minnesota characters were dead on accurate from my experiences visiting Minnesota. Whoever did the research and background on Minnesota obviously spent some time there and put it all together in a nutshell just perfectly for what is a very funny and heart warming story. Where is your sense of humor people? The story itself for that matter was one of believing in the common good as we see the educated and professional city girl played by Rene Z learn a few good lessons about more every day people. She takes a bad situation and turns it into something very good, great in fact. By the end if you follow the story you are left with a tear in your eye. I loved her character, loved her, Harry Connick was great too and so for Rene and the people who worked hard on this movie, it was well worth the rental and I will watch it again today before I return it in fact. Don't listen to these snooty know it all critics here, especially if you are a Rene Z or Harry Connick Jr fan, you will love this movie and story, I promise.
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- cream_bar
- Dec 26, 2009
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,734,283
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,741,530
- Feb 1, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $29,010,817
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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