Beauty and the Briefcase Ha...Get it?

The ironic yet still funny take on the classic film Beauty and the Beast comes to our screen with Beauty and the Briefcase. Starring hillary Duff as the female lead and Michael McMillian as the male lead, the story follows an up and coming writer who goes undecover in the business world to find love. Why go undercover in the business world? For the magazine Cosmospolitan of course (aka The Holy Grail). As this is the characters first article for the extremley popular magazine she dives head first into the business world. Her job is to find her magic man becuase for some reason no women in New York can find one. Honestly I am still not sure how that is possible but..fine..it's the plot of the movie.

The female character Lane, goes out on many many dates with different guys who meet some points on her "checklist". Which brings me to my first bad advice point, a person does not need a checklist to find love. Yes I understand finding someone with similar interests and who is stable is important but if you find love with someone who you didn't think you would fall for, that is totally fine. Be happy, be in love, but do not create a crazy checklist with impossibly high standards.

In the movie the wardrobe choices for Lane and some of the other females are very interesting becuase it usually involved bright colors and form fitting attire. When Lane first arrives at the office her female coworkers and dressed in drab clothing that is also unfitted. As Lane walks through the office her male coworkers are constantly checking her out and making some sort of comment. Now I understand male attention is great but the message the movie gives about how to get that attention is wrong. The CEO of a company should not be getting distracted by a woman in a tight fitting skirt and honestly the entire office was ready to be an HR problem.

The postive message this movie brings is directly at the end. As I mentioned earlier you do not need a checklist to find the perfect perso, you just need your perfect person. They will pop out of nowhere and will take your breath away. Finally Lane learns this and moves on with her life, and ditches the checklist (yay!). Giving good love advice is hard, especially in a cheesy ABC family movie. But the message the film brings at the end is what is importnat. You can find love anywhere and once you do, just let yourself fall.