Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is a young morning television producer who’s just recently lost her job at a small company. She then quickly gets a new job at IBS – I will refrain from any and all potty jokes I promise – as the new executive producer of the show Daybreak. It’s the worst morning show on air and she is going to bring it back to life. Colleen Peck (Diane Lane) and Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford) co-host the Daybreak show and we follow the struggles of Becky trying to get everyone to cooperate and try to make entertaining television while getting up at 2am every morning to get it done.

I tweeted out the other day that I was heading out to watch this movie and I got quite possible the best description of the film from a fellow blogger, Castor for Anomalous Material, which said “It’s impossible to hate though, that would be like punching a puppy in the face” and it’s true. This movie is so damn funny and charming that it’s impossible to hate. It’s the movie that both sexes can agree on completely. Rachel McAdams is a great leading actress playing the modern woman who’s married to her job and just can’t imagine that any guy could put up with her loving her job and working 80 hours a week, and at the same time we have Diane Lane and Harrison Ford playing these two ego-maniac anchors who are just not meshing well and we get to laugh at them being complete assholes to each other for the most part of the movie.

I kind of hated that the movie bothered to take the first ten or so minutes to get to McAdams being on set at Daybreak, because that’s where I wanted her. I didn’t need to waste time seeing that she’d done it before at a tiny station in New Jersey – or wherever it was – because the moment she walks in the office you believe that she’s the best thing that this show is ever going to see.

What definitely helped along the way was the entire supporting cast. From Jeff Goldblum, playing the boss that pushes McAdams to make it better faster, to Patrick Wilson, who not only helps setup Ford’s character to be the grumpy old man that he is but also ends up playing McAdams’ love interest in the movie. The film just works as the romantic comedy that we all love.

It actually reminds me a lot of a film that everyone was falling over themselves praising a few years back, and I actually wasn’t that in love with at the time, Devil Wears Prada. For good reason when I realise that both this film as well as Devil Wears Prada were written by Aline Brosh McKenna. This however felt more of a general hectic job romance kind of film and had a bit more gender balance than the aforementioned fashion related film. Anyways, that’s what I think and I loved this movie.

IMDB says 7.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes says 54%

I say 8.0/10