At the Movies

by Esther McCarthy

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OPENING THIS WEEKEND...

HEIGL AND SPY WHO LOVED HER

SPY GAMES: Katherine Heigl and assassin-boyfriend Ashton Kutcher in KillersWHAT do you do when you discover the man in your life is actually an international superspy?

That's the dilemma facing Katherine Heigl in the new romantic comedy, Killers (12A).

She plays Jen, a young woman who's recently had her heart broken and is in no mood for finding love again.

But that all changes when, while on a holiday to the South of France with her parents, she meets the charming and handsome Spencer (Ashton Kutcher).

Three years later, she and her beau are happily married and building their lives together - until one day when a sequence of events
reveals Spencer's secret.

Without his wife's knowledge, he's been secretly working as a spy and a hit man and faced with this shock, Jen decides to start playing detective herself.

While dodging bullets and pretending to neighbours that her suburban life remains perfectly normal, she vows to find out who this bloke she's married to really is.

Killers is now showing nationwide.

Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Rebecca Hall head the cast in Please Give (15A), the story of a woman wrestling with very modern dilemmas.

Keener plays Kate, a businesswoman who buys furniture at cheap sales and flogs it at a hefty mark up in her trendy Manhattan shop.

She's going through a period of conflict with her teenage daughter and the stress of sharing a marriage and business with her husband Alex (Platt) is bringing its own pressures.

There are also ongoing issues with the neighbours, a cranky elderly woman and her two feisty granddaughters (Hall and Peet).

The movie takes a wry look at what happens to all these relationships as they begin to unravel.

Please Give opened at selected cinemas this weekend.

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