If you’re not already a Melissa McCarthy fan, The Boss probably won’t change your mind but there are some hard laughs to be had and people who love her work will lap it up.
The premise is pretty simple. McCarthy plays hard-hearted and hard-assed businesswoman Michelle Darnell -- think Martha Stewart with a mouth like a sailor -- who gets locked up for insider trading. When she gets out, her life is nothing, she’s lost everything, and the only person she can turn to is her former employee, Claire (Kristen Bell). While staying with Claire and her young daughter, she comes up with a new business idea - a Brownie empire.
Together they start the new business venture but among the obstacles in the way are Darnell’s personal issues and any she screwed over in the past. Among the wronged is the (mildly annoying but also irksomely entertaining) broken-hearted ex and former business rival Ronald (Peter Dinklage), or Renault as he likes to be known, who is now obsessed with the samurai.
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The premise is pretty simple. McCarthy plays hard-hearted and hard-assed businesswoman Michelle Darnell -- think Martha Stewart with a mouth like a sailor -- who gets locked up for insider trading. When she gets out, her life is nothing, she’s lost everything, and the only person she can turn to is her former employee, Claire (Kristen Bell). While staying with Claire and her young daughter, she comes up with a new business idea - a Brownie empire.
Together they start the new business venture but among the obstacles in the way are Darnell’s personal issues and any she screwed over in the past. Among the wronged is the (mildly annoying but also irksomely entertaining) broken-hearted ex and former business rival Ronald (Peter Dinklage), or Renault as he likes to be known, who is now obsessed with the samurai.
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