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Damn, Audrey Tautou is sexy. In this French romantic comedy, she changes the charge in the air when she enters a room. This is very good for the role she plays. She’s a con woman who seduces rich men and lives off their generosity until she finds a better money source. She gets jewels and clothes and fancy rooms in fancy hotels and they get her. The millionaires are getting a steal.

But who’s not getting a steal is the sleepy waiter Jean (Gad Elmaleh, THE VALET). One night, dressed in a tux, Jean hops behind the bar to mix himself a drink. Tautou’s Irene strolls in and thinks he’s the jackpot. After a hot night in one of the empty hotel rooms, Irene discovers she was slumming it when a shocked family shows up in the morning. But Jean is still smitten and offers to pay for her as well. She humors him by bleeding his savings dry in a few hours.
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This family film is based on the American Girl toy line. That doesn’t seem very promising does it, but you’d be jumping to wrong conclusions. The popular dolls are based around stories and this one is brought to the screen with an old-fashioned charm. Patricia Rozema’s adaptation never gets cloy with its Great Depression era tale, dealing with the time period innocently, but honestly.

Kit Kittredge (Abigail Breslin, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) desperately wants to become of star reporter. Her father Jack (Chris O’Donnell, BATMAN & ROBIN) has just lost his car dealership and the bank is threatening to foreclose on their house. While he goes off to Chicago to find work, her mother Margaret (Julia Ormond, LEGENDS OF THE FALL) rents out their extra rooms to boarders. Mr. Berk (Stanley Tucci, THE LOVELY BONES) is a magician. Miss Dooley (Jane Krakowski, TV’s 30 ROCK) is a sexy dance instructor. Miss Bond (Joan Cusack, WORKING GIRL) is the flighty driver of a mobile library. Mrs. Howard (Glenne Headly, DICK TRACY), whose house was foreclosed on, moves in with her son Stirling Howard IV (Zach Mills, HOLLYWOODLAND), who defends Kit when boys at school pick on her for her family’s situation.
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Heartbreak and mix CDs, isn’t that what the teenage years are all about? They start off Peter Sollett’s romantic comedy in one of those one crazy night plots. As the title suggests there is a boy named Nick and a girl name Norah and there will be music involved. This hit or miss comedy does a good job with those parts, but it disconnects before the upload is finished with the rest.

Nick (Michael Cera, JUNO) is pinning over his ex-girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena, BROKEN FLOWERS). He keeps making her mix CDs to win her back, but she just tosses them in the trash. This is where they are recovered by Norah (Kat Dennings, THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN), who loves Nick’s taste in music. She’s also loves his Queercore band, The Jerk-Offs, which also includes the gay members Thom (Aaron Yoo, DISTURBIA) and Dev (Rafi Gavron, INKHEART). Rumors hit the school that the publicity shy band Where’s Fluffy? is playing a secret concert in NYC. Thom and Dev drag Nick to find them, while separately Norah and her best friend Caroline (Ari Graynor, An AMERICAN CRIME) do the same. As one would expect the paths of Nick, Norah, Tris and Norah’s friend with benefits Tal (Jay Baruchel, KNOCKED UP) will cross during the night.
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