The early beats of Peter Segal’s “Second Act” won’t just feel familiar to fans of the working-girl-makes-good genre – best exemplified by, of course, “Working Girl” – but to fans of star Jennifer Lopez’s own filmography. In 2002, the multi-hyphenate starred in “Maid in Manhattan,” in which her titular maid is mistaken for a socialite and just goes with it to improve her life (and up her chances of snagging her handsome love interest). Similar forces are at play in the initially amiable “Second Act,” in which Lopez again stars as a woman who changes her life through the awesome power of basically just lying a lot and hoping no one is ever the wiser.
But whereas “Maid in Manhattan” took its Cinderella premise to predictable ends, “Second Act” isn’t content to let Lopez’s striving Maya zoom through the rarefied ranks of the business world, proving to everyone...
But whereas “Maid in Manhattan” took its Cinderella premise to predictable ends, “Second Act” isn’t content to let Lopez’s striving Maya zoom through the rarefied ranks of the business world, proving to everyone...
- 12/20/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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