Lucy Hill (Renée Zellweger), an ambitious executive, lives the high life in Miami. She loves climbing the corporate ladder as well as all the material goods that her success can buy. When she is offered a temporary assignment to restructure a factory in a backwater town, she eagerly accepts and anticipates a huge promotion in the pipeline. However, what Lucy gets is a life-changing experience and romance with the man of her dreams (Harry Connick Jr.).
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"New in Town" is "The Pajama Game" without the songs, the laughs or the bare-knuckled realism. It stars Renee Zellweger and her blinding-snowstorm smile as Lucy Hill, a hotshot Miami businesswoman whose firm assigns her to oversee a 50 percent workforce reduction at a food-processing plant in New Ulm, Minn. Talk about culture shock. The people there are all recent graduates of a Bad Minnesota Dialect workshop, and they're not afraid to "drag Jesus into regular conversation," as Lucy's secretary, Blanche Gunderson (Siobhan Fallon Hogan), informs Lucy. (Full review)