Insulting, with too many stereotypes

The only reason I watched this movie was for Jami Gertz and Dylan McDermott.

This movie managed to have every ridiculous stereotype in it, as well as being insulting to young working class women from New Jersey, young men from Queens who want to better themselves and Manhattan socialites who own art galleries. Everyone came across as stereotypes, unlikable, annoying and just plain ridiculous.

Sure, there are many people stuck in a rut, socially and job wise, sometimes the comfort and familiarity of those situations keeps them there, no matter how hard they try to change their lives, they just can't.

This movie depicted Toby as a dizzy head-in-the-clouds social climber, a woman whose ONLY answer out of her New Jersey working class rut, was to date a GQ type successful Manhattan businessman?!

Let's see, how about Toby going back to college part time while staying at her job (which incidentally she seemed to be very good at) and bettering herself? Get a Masters in childhood education or a subject she was interested in?

Then perhaps, she would have started to mingle with others (men) who were also bettering themselves,...you know, to meet these ambitious men on the same plane....instead of hitching on to some successful man's gravy train? I find these types of films extremely insulting.

Toby needed to stop fantasizing about a knight-in-shining-armor, stop looking at photos of men she was attracted to and basically start working on improving herself, especially if she wanted a better life beyond the one she had in her working class area of New Jersey. DIY ladies.

Movies like this keep perpetuating the myth that women still need rich men to better their lives, so much for women's lib and getting a good education!

No wonder 'chick flicks' get a bad rep, these films are still wrapped up in a silly bygone era mentality: the only way for a woman to better their life, is to marry a man with a big wallet.