In this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Allison Pearson (the wife of Anthony Lane, a writer for this magazine), Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Kate Reddy, a Boston investment banker and frequent flyer whose heavy travel routine burdens her with guilt as it makes life at home hard for her architect husband, Richard (Greg Kinnear), and their two small children.
Anachronistically, for Parker's LAPD, there's also an African-American who is handy with a knife (Anthony Mackie) and a Latino who muscles in on the action (Michael Pena).