lotusdiem Review of Beauty & the Briefcase

Beauty & the Briefcase (2010 TV Movie)

For the writer's sake, I hope this was someone else's idea

[2/10 · 27 April 2010]

Aside from promoting every negative female stereotype, the movie had little else going for it. So, somehow there is one token black person (a model roommate, who has a grand total of maybe 5 min of screen time), a famous and well-established female photographer barely in her late twenties, and some nobody broke neurotic and vain wanna-be writer living together. Of course, the two women who have somewhat of a life want to help out their down-on-her- luck friend (in addition to free rent in an amazing Manhattan apt. and groceries and lending clothes etc) by getting her a meeting with the chief editor of Cosmopolitan mag. How likely!! That would of course happen! For the next 85 min of my life I cringed and died inside. Maybe the acting wouldn't be so bad if the dialogue didn't revolve around Cinderella on pink crack.

I am so angry for watching this movie, I'm sorry if this review is incoherent. I just can't believe this got made?!!

Things I learned from this movie because I was too naive to know them before: Women don't actually need to do any work, they just need to be pretty and fashion-obsessed Men let poor choices slide if you're a woman If you're mind-numbingly stupid, that's OK = you'll have a happy ending too Cosmo really cares about writers they never met or published and give out cover stories like candy The Magic Man with the sexy British accent is really a waiter, try to snatch a grad degree carrying investment banker instead - he could support your shoe habit