One for the Money feels like the forgotten pilot for a TV show that wasn't picked up for series. Watch as�Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl), Trenton divorcee-turned-bounty hunter, hunts down�bail skippers in her high heels while trying to choose between troubled cop Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara) and badass fellow�bond agent�Ranger (Daniel Sunjata) -- Tuesdays on USA! Plum is the creation of author�Janet Evanovich and the basis of a bestselling�18 novel franchise, and if you squint at this big screen adaptation (directed by�Julie Anne Robinson, of�The Last Song and episodes of Weeds, Grey's Anatomy,�2 Broke Girls and others) you can make out some of the character's potential appeal -- she's an everywoman who discovers an unexpected talent for a tough gig, an outspoken Jersey girl who refuses to let the fact that she's out of her comfort zone stop her from getting the job done, etc, etc. But as played by�Heigl, Stephanie is mind-blowingly charmless, the latest variation of the on-screen persona the actress has mysteriously embraced -- the prissy, once-wronged gal prone to bouts of inconveniently timed clumsiness and acrimonious banter with her eventual love interest.
I don't dislike�Heigl on principle, but it's all too easy to call out everything that's gone wrong with the romantic comedy in recent years by way of her filmography. Her characters apparently need to be subjected to a journey of humiliating comeuppance in order to win over/come around to their�unlikely loves -- the rom-com as punishment fantasy. Here her hostile Romeo,�Morelli (no one refers to him by his first name), is the roguish town heartbreaker who's on the lam after having been charged with murdering�Ziggy Kuleska, a local tough involved in some major criminal activity. For Stephanie,�Morelli's more serious offense is not calling her back after relieving her of her virginity in…
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