Andrew Paxton played by Ryan Reynolds is an editor's assistant in a major publishing company in New York City.

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2011)

Andrew Paxton played by Ryan Reynolds is an editor's assistant in a major publishing company in New York City. He has been working closely with his boss Margaret Tate played by Sandra Bullock for more than three years in an attempt to win a promotion to editor. Andrew has become so familiar with his boss that he know just about all there is to know about her. Margaret is somewhat of a recluse in that she has virtually no social life and runs her department at the publishing company with an iron fist. Including Andrew all of her co-workers see her as a witch on a broom casting spells on all her coworkers (Hoberman, Chiarelli, & Fletcher, 2009).
Andrew is a devoted employee with a passion to edit. In order to achieve this goal he feels it necessary to know everything there is to know about his boss and make sure that he pleases her at all times. Even if this means marrying her so that she can maintain her Visa status in the United States. Andrew makes what he feels is a deal with the devil in disguise. He agrees to marry Margaret only if she will give him the promotion that he feels he not only has worked three years for but that he deserves. Andrew and Margaret prove that love can come from the most unexpected places and conquer just about anything (Hoberman, Chiarelli, & Fletcher, 2009). Much like another one of Ryan Reynolds movies "Definitely, Maybe", where Will Hayes a successful political consultant is explaining to his daughter how he fell in love with and subsequently will divorce his daughter's mother. In the process Will falls in love with an unlikely match, a video store clerk named April (Bevan & Brooks, 2008).
The first time I saw this movie I fell in love. Just the thought of two very different people coming together to take a difficult situation and make it work for all involved sounds like the perfect scenario. Andrew who is very easy on the eyes and has women throwing their phone numbers at him has poured all his hopes and dreams into trying to get a promotion to editor under a boss who needs him to such a level that she has no intentions of promoting him out from underneath her. Margaret has closed herself off to the world in such a way that she has virtually no social life and has alienated her co-workers as a result of her work ethic.
This is a wonderful film of love, hope and desire. With many familiar and interesting family dynamics that most viewers can certainly relate to and understand. I found the scenery to be extremely beautiful giving the viewer a feeling of renewed hope and excitement.