Line #20 Film/TwoWeeksNotice


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3	''Two Weeks Notice'' is a 2002 American RomanticComedy film written and directed by [[Creator/MarcLawrenceFilmmaker Marc Lawrence]].
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5	Philandering MillionairePlayboy George Wade (Creator/HughGrant) is the front man for a construction company. He hires GranolaGirl lawyer Lucy Kelson (Creator/SandraBullock), who hates everything George stands for but agrees because it will save her hometown community center. Over the course of a year of working together he begins to rely on her more and more, until he cannot make a single decision without her input.
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7	She realizes she's [[GirlFriday more of a nanny than a legal employee]], and gives her titular resignation. But she can’t leave until she helps him hire a replacement. During this process Lucy meets June (Creator/AliciaWitt), the woman who’ll fill her shoes, and has second thoughts about leaving George.
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10	!!Two Weeks Notice provides examples of:
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12	* ArmorPiercingResponse: When Lucy argues with George, he snaps at her that she's a saint and no one can stand to be around her because they don't want to be preached to and that saints are boring. She's stunned to silence and even George seems to hate to have said it to her.
13	* AboveTheInfluence: Subverted. The ''extremely'' drunk Lucy gives George a kiss and possibly would have tried for more had she not passed out immediately after the kiss.
14	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Lucy is, at first, horrified and annoyed by George and what he does, but over the course of working with him, she becomes rather fond of him and eventually falls for him when he [[spoiler: keeps his end of the bargain and saves her community center.]]
15	* BackToBackPoster: One of the posters shows main characters George Wade and Lucy Kelso learning on each others' backs. It symbolizes how, while the two hate what each other stands for in the beginning, the two start to become extremely interdependent on each other as the story progresses.
16	* BitchInSheepsClothing: June. She seems sweet at first, but the more Lucy sees of her, the clearer it is that she's just trying to get into George's pants rather than being a good assistant.
17	* BrainyBrunette: Lucy is a highly intelligent brunette lawyer.
18	* BreakAwayPopHit: The Music/CountingCrows cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" is probably much more well-known than this movie, where it debuted.
19	* CallBack: Earlier, a drunk Lucy brags to George about her [[SexGoddess sexual prowess]], saying she's ferocious like a bobcat and [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility flexible like a pretzel]], but passes out drunk soon after. At the end of the film, when they're a couple, he decides to bring it up again.
20	-->'''George:''' I would very much like to discuss that whole bobcat-pretzel thing.\
21	'''Lucy:''' Oh, I was just kidding. I'm allergic to bobcats, actually.\
22	'''George:''' I'm very sorry to hear that.\
23	'''Lucy:''' But I can do the pretzel.\
24	'''George:''' That's ''excellent'' news.
25	%%* ChivalrousPervert: George.
26	* DeadpanSnarker: Lucy and George are prone to snarking, leading a lot of SnarkToSnarkCombat.
27	* EndearinglyDorky: Lucy to George, but ''especially'' when drunk.
28	* FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility: While drunk, Lucy brags to George that she's a SexGoddess due to being extremely flexible.
29	-->'''Lucy:''' You should be so lucky because the lawyerly exterior... don't let that fool you because inside I am, like, a complete animal. It's, like, bobcat. You know, it's scary.\
30	'''George:''' I can see that it might be.\
31	'''Lucy:''' No. No. Look, I can bend like a pretzel. I'm serious. And I'm not talking the straight kind. I'm talking, like, the twisty kind. Twisty like the bobcat, salty type of pretzel. Because that's what men want, right?\
32	'''George:''' That is their dream.
33	* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: George, to Howard. Howard knows him well enough to call him off as he's about to do it again.
34	-->'''Howard''': Why do you always find that so funny?\
35	'''George''': It's very hard to say.
36	* HelloAttorney: Lucy, but not until she dresses up for the fancy event George is attending. The film never portrays her as unattractive, simply that she has no fashion sense whatsoever until she [[SheCleansUpNicely arrives in that stunning gown with her hair properly done]].
37	* GirlFriday: Although Lucy's job really isn't this, she ends up being the classic GirlFriday for George.
38	* GreenEyedEpiphany: Lucy doesn't start to notice she has romantic feelings for George until June shows up and starts monopolizing his time and flirting with him.
39	* LadykillerInLove: TheCasanova George ends up falling for Lucy
40	* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Lucy and George due to their constant bickering and SnarkToSnarkCombat.
41	* MessyHair: Lucy, and the way it's cut isn't all that flattering either.
42	* MistakenForPregnant: George commits this while interviewing a job candidate, Polly. And later in the movie, they [[BrickJoke meet each other again]]. She remarks that ''now'' she's pregnant and he can congratulate her. George thinks that she's playing a trick on him, so he refuses to believe it. Thus she gets mad at him ''again.''
43	* MyBelovedSmother: Subverted. Though it's not shown in detail, Lucy mentions her mother's constant criticism of everything she does, a byproduct of which may be her tendency to stress eat.
44	* NecktieLeash: One of the posters features Lucy pulling George by his tie.
45	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Lucy manages to get her hair stuck on George belt in the men's restroom, leaving them to be found with Lucy on her knees with her head stuck on George's crotch, unable to get up.
46	* OppositesAttract: Lucy and George. She's an intelligent, competent lawyer who specializes in historic preservation, environmental law, and pro bono causes while he's is an arrogant and naive MillionairePlayboy. Somehow, they fall in love.
47	* OverTheShoulderCarry, George carries Lucy over his shoulder and walks through traffic to an RV so Lucy can use their bathroom. It's especially humiliating for Lucy, because she has dirt spots on the backside of her skirt from falling right before George picked her up.
48	* PottyEmergency: Lucy after the tennis match and chili dogs. And the cookies. And the...
49	* ProtestByObstruction: Lucy and some fellow advocates lay down in front of a building to avert its destruction.
50	* RaceForYourLove: [[spoiler: Lucy seems to reject George's apology and confession of love, but reconsiders and races down the street to catch up to him. Luckily, he hadn't gotten that far and the two embrace and kiss.]]
51	* RomanticFalseLead: Lucy's replacement, June is a LoveInterest to George that only exists to get in the way of the OfficialCouple.
52	* SavingTheOrphanage: This is the reason Lucy agrees to work for Wade in the first place is to stop his company from tearing down a community center.
53	* SexySecretary: Lucy's eventual replacement, June, who turns out is a bit of a GoldDigger who just wants to get in George's pants.
54	* StripPoker: Well, OK, technically June and George are playing strip ''chess''.
55	* TyopOnTheCover / WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: Apparently this was the impetus for Lynne Truss to write Literature/EatsShootsAndLeaves, a book about punctuation and the misuse thereof. She saw a poster for this film and noticed, to her horror, that there was no apostrophe after the word "weeks".
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