Product Details

• Actors: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr.
• Directors: Jonas Elmer
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (104 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001WAKOW6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,266 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "New In Town (Fullscreen Edition)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger stars as Lucy Hill, a high-powered executive in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle. Seeking to snag a big promotion, Lucy agrees to move to a remote Minnesota town to oversee the restructuring of a blue-collar manufacturing plant. After enduring icy roads, freezing weather and a chilly reception from the locals, she soon warms up to the small town and its people – especially the town’s handsome union representative (Harry Connick, Jr.). What begins as a job assignment becomes the best thing ever to happen to her, in this heartwarming comedy that proves that the warmest people are often in the coldest places.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Midwest fun, August 23, 2010

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Adele Montrose "fluter" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: New In Town (Fullscreen Edition) (DVD)

This is one of my favorite movies. If you are from the midwest or have visited someone in the midwest especially in the winter you will find this movie funny. I am from California and married someone from northern Michigan so I can relate to Renee's character in the movie as she is from Florida. I have had several trips to Michigan/midwest and discovered a totally different type of living than what I have experienced in Los Angeles. I laughed and found it very heart warming.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Grumpy Young Woman going Gung Ho in Fargo, June 1, 2009

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Hikari (Lima, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New In Town (Widescreen Edition) (DVD)

2.5 stars. The title of my review pays homage to several influences that came to mind while watching "New in Town", all of which, I might add, were funnier than this. Multifaceted Oscar winner Renee Zellweger has finally encountered a role she can't pull off convincingly, that of a ruthlessly ambitious corporate management type tasked with turning around an underperforming factory. 'Fish out of Water' stereotypes abound as our plucky gal travels from Miami to New Ulm, MN (Winnipeg stands in for Minnesota here, and is even colder, if that is possible), to earn herself a promotion by making the factory profitable. As her entire wardrobe consists of designer suits and shoes more fitting of a fashion editor covering the Bryant Park shows than to a hard hat zone in Minnesota in the middle of winter, her new subordinates are doubtful that this will be achieved. As are we. Of course, the script demands that everyone, including the hunky union boss (Harry Connick, Jr.) take an instant dislike to the stuck-up big city suit intent on screwing them out of a job, until, of course, she reveals her pluckiness and charm and they win her over with tapioca and down-home Midwestern gumption. Renee Zellweger has proven that there is no other actress more willing to take physical pratfalls and otherwise look ridiculous as she, and she pratfalls her little heart out as she falls sideways in the snow; falls facedown in the snow; falls backwards off the porch into snow while drunk; gets her car stuck in the snow; and memorably tries to take a pee in the woods while wearing about 75 pounds of snowsuit. She works her little heart out to bring the funny, but the script lets her down and just never gels into a cohesive whole. Some of the supporting players are effortlessly hilarious, most notably Siobhan Fallon Hogan as Blanche Gunderson, who is certainly related to Frances McDormand's Sheriff Marge Gunderson of "Fargo", and J.K. Simmons (Spiderman; The Closer), nearly unrecognizable under a 10-pound beard and even heavier Minnesota accent. The leads unfortunately can't save this from being a freeze-dried piece of Rom-Com Screenwriting 101 complete with Midwestern sterotypes. Even if the good people of Minnesota have no other hobbies besides ice fishing, scrapbooking and eating tapioca (which I'm sure they do), this is insulting all the same. Matthau and Lemmon did this better, and had loads more chemistry, too. It's kinda a shame that so many cast and crew members braved frostbite for this frozen dud. But the Academy might consider minting a new award and making Renee its shoo-in first recipient: Best Performance in Stiletto Heels on Snow Pack by a Lead Actress. Really--she deserves some kind of recognition for that.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reminds me of home, October 15, 2010

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Larry South (TWO HARBORS, MN, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: New In Town (Fullscreen Edition) (DVD)

Funny. Renae does a great job and Harry is always good. Love the Minnesota accents but loved the strong faith represented in the film. It does change hearts. Good film and a great plot, seems to remind me of living in this state in a small town with small town politics. This film about sums it up. Good job.