Archive for February 4th, 2012

During the summer my mother went into retirement and started reading a bunch of books, one series she really got into was Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels. I watched her chuckle through some of them and decided to pick up One For the Money, the first in the series. I loved it!!! It is about a laid off broke Brooklyn woman who joins her cousin’s bounty hunting service to get money and claim her number one target, Joe Morelli, a man she was once involved with. On January 27, 2012 Lionsgate and Lakeshore entertainment introduced the movie adaption starring Katherine Heigl as our beloved Stephanie, so naturally being a fan of both the actress and the series Mom and I went to see it. No bueno! I looked at my mom after the movie and she made the same eh face I had on. Katherine would go in and out of a Brooklyn accent which was a bit annoying, the humor and suspense of the book were not there, it was rushed when it came to Stephanie getting her information and there was little about Benito Ramirez, the major villian. Some perks of the movie were Debbie Reynolds as Grandma Mazur and Jason O’Mara who plays Joe Morelli and gets shirtless. WOOT! Mom and I recommend just reading the book, Janet knows what she is doing but the director Julie Anne Robinson not so much.