![]() ![]() Fear not, her best friend, Joan (Leah Remini), has a son who will soon be at Stanford, and he creates a fake Facebook account and résumé that lands her a job at one of the very beauty companies she stocks at the store. Unfortunately, he can’t take her seriously because she doesn’t have a college degree. Maya (Jennifer Lopez) has worked in the trenches of retail for her whole adult life, and believes that she finally has a chance to get promoted to manager during a store visit from the district manager. In the very beginning, Second Act starts as a pandering sermon to the anti-intellectualism that is becoming all too common in modern political discourse. Though I typically like to start reviews with a brief summary of the beginning of a film, this particular movie starts and stops its story more than once, so you’ll need to bear with me. ![]() The romance is barely a phantom presence within a plot that wildly spasms from one neatly contrived thread to the next, and the only comedy comes from a plucky and pleasantly inebriated sidekick. Pitching Second Act as a romantic comedy is dead wrong, as it is neither. ![]()
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