“The only thing stopping you is you.”

From Second Act.

40-year-old Maya (Jennifer Lopez) has spent the last 15 years of her life working as an assistant manager at a Value Shop store, and with the encouragement of her boyfriend Trey (Milo Ventimiglia), her best friend Joan (Leah Remini), and her friends (Lacretta and Dieddre Friel) from work she feels that she is the perfect person for the promotion available at work.  However, she is quickly passed over because she only has her GED while the other applicant (Dan Bucatinsky) comes with multiple degrees.  After complaining to Joan’s son Dilly (Dalton Harrod), she is surprised to receive a job interview from a large company that she didn’t apply for.  Upon arrival, the company CEO Anderson Clarke (Treat Williams) comments on her impressive resume, educational accolades, and successes posted on her Facebook account… the only problem from Maya is that she knows that none of it is true and that Dilly is responsible for the majorly trumped up degrees and resume.  Joan convinces her to take the job and to prove that she has what it takes even without the degrees, so she begins and is tasked with consulting with a disgrace scientist (Alan Aisenberg) and a temp personal assistant (Charlene Yi) to create a line of totally organic skin products.  Running the opposing, more fiscally-responsible team is Anderson’s daughter Zoe (Vanessa Hudgens), the brilliant lead scientist Felix (Dave Foley), and the snobby but successful Ron (Freddie Stroma) who only have to improve the current line of products.  As Maya begins to embrace her double life, she finds herself slipping away from her friends and alienating herself as she struggles with a choice she made in the past that seem to haunt her more and more in this double life.

This comedy starts strong, flutters a bit in the middle, but comes together for a fun and fulfilling ending.  Lopez and Remini easily steal the show in this film with lots of heart and hilarious one-liners.  While Second Act probably won’t win any major awards, it is a very enjoyable movie with lots of laugh-out-loud moments.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 105 minutes |Genre: comedy |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

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