3.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 3.9
Overview
As an employee at a Boston-based financial firm, Kate Reddy struggles daily to balance the demands of her high-powered career with the needs of her husband, Richard, and their two children. When she gets an account that requires frequent trips to New York and her husband gets a new job, Kate finds herself spread even thinner. Complicating Kate's life even more is her new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who throws temptation into the mix.
Starring Cast
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Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
As an employee at a Boston-based financial firm, Kate Reddy struggles daily to balance the demands of her high-powered career with the needs of her husband, Richard, and their two children. When she gets an account that requires frequent trips to New York and her husband gets a new job, Kate finds herself spread even thinner. Complicating Kate's life even more is her new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who throws temptation into the mix.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film explores the universal challenges of work-life balance for a modern working mother, presenting the problem as a personal struggle rather than a systemic issue. Its resolution emphasizes individual choices, prioritization, and family adjustments, leading to a neutral political stance.
The movie features a predominantly white main cast with some visible diversity in supporting roles, without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white characters. Its narrative centers on a white professional woman's work-life balance, presenting traditional identities neutrally or positively without explicit critique.
Secondary
The film "I Don't Know How She Does It" focuses entirely on the experiences of a heterosexual working mother. It does not feature any LGBTQ+ characters, storylines, or themes, resulting in no portrayal of queer identity within its narrative. The movie's scope is limited to the challenges of balancing a traditional family and career.
The film "I Don't Know How She Does It" focuses on the challenges of a working mother balancing career and family life. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the narrative, thus rendering the portrayal N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "I Don't Know How She Does It" is an adaptation of a novel. All major characters retain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as another.
The film is an adaptation of a novel. Key characters' races in the source material were not explicitly defined in a way that contradicts their portrayal in the film, nor were they widely established as a different race. No historical figures are involved.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.0
5.2
Critic Ratings
1.7
3.8
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