Think Working Girl and Maid in Manhattan and you get a wonderful and inspiring new comedy in Second Act. Jennifer lopez stars as Maya, a 40-year old woman struggling with frustrations from unfulfilled dreams. Basically, that describes most women trapped in dull & unchallenging jobs. Suddenly, she gets a chance to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts, and that it is never too late for a Second Act!
Jennifer Lopez is up for a promotion, when a smug, male co-worker and rival, tells her that getting the job won’t be easy “for a woman your age,” you know Second Act is going to take us on a whirlwind adventure as she sets about proving the naysayers wrong. It’s a movie that transport us into a workplace fantasyland that fueled Working Girl and Lopez’ own Maid in Manhattan. Well, you have to know that our Jen lands the job!
The only question remaining is, at what cost? That’s the premise of director Peter Segal’s new comedy from STXfilms. Lopez stars as Maya, “a 40-year-old woman struggling with frustrations from unfulfilled dreams,” as the logline puts it.
“I just wish we lived in a world where street smarts equal book smarts,” Maya tells the pal (Leah Remini) who will soon join in a plot to upgrade Maya’s resume and social media history, with Maya none the wiser. Fake photos with Obama, a trip up Kilimanjaro, and a phony Wharton business school degree seem to do the trick. Soon enough she’s ensconced in a big-windowed office atop what looks to be One World Trade Center, with a lavish paid-for apartment to go with it (though, in truth, her old place in Queens would be the envy of many a New Yorker).
By the way, how cool to work on a movie with your real life BFF– Lopez and Remini are besties on and off the Hollywood screens.
Segal directs from a script by Justin Zackham and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, with Lopez and Remini joined in the cast by Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us), Vanessa Hudgens (Powerless) and Treat Williams. Producers are Lopez, Goldsmith-Thomas, Zackham and Benny Medina.
Second Act hits theaters November 21.
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