Hard to watch at points, but a great character.

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2001)

Talk about ditzy. But you have to give her credit. No matter how many lumps she takes (and boy does she take them, some deserved some not) she gets back up and is out slugging the next day for what she wants. She does flirt with quitting at one point, but doesn't. You have to admire that, no matter how off-putting the smoking, drinking, and cussin' she does. Not to mention the complete ineptness at executing any kind of real career.
So how does she capture the attention, then devotion, of two upper-crust British men (one gentleman, one cad) who can and do have other women who are slinkier, richer, more poised, and quite willing? You have to watch to find how Renée Zellweger somehow makes it work. I do wish there had been fewer really really embarassing scenes for her to work through.
For the record, the book is better.