She works long hours as a maid at the Bereford luxury hotel in Manhattan in order to provide for the 10 year old son.

One day one of her colleagues convinces her to put on a dress of one of the hotel’s clients and just as she finished dressing up two persons come in: her son and handsome Christopher, a candidate to the United States Senate.

He thinks she is a hotel guest and she does not deny it; the chemistry between them is too strong and they ignore all the other aspects.

In the middle of their love, the mistaken identities and the first page gossip articles, the two realize that the bigger their dreams are, the bigger the number of opportunities one will have to make them true.

Release Date: 13 December 2002

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Tyler Posey, Natasha Richardson, Marissa Matrone, Chris Eigeman, Stanley Tucci, Seth William Meier, Bob Hoskins

Director: Wayne Wang

After his last African adventure, Ace Ventura goes back to Florida, gets married to his girlfriend Melissa and becomes a father for the first time.

Unfortunately, he still needs adrenaline in his life, so he leaves Melissa and Ace Jr. at home and gets involved in a new case.As a temporarily single mother, Melissa Ventura gets a job at the zoo in order to be able to take care of her 12 year old son, which is starting to look and act more and more like his father.

Ace Jr. starts playing the role of the detective for his 7th grade colleagues, by finding the pets they lost and he often goes through bad moments and funny situations.

When somebody steels a baby panda bear from the zoo and his mother is wrongfully accused, Ace Jr. gets his friends Laura and A-Plus and they all start investigating to see who was the real thief, to capture him and show the police his mother is innocent.

Release Date: 27 January 2009

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

Cast: Josh Flitter, Emma Lockhart, Austin Rogers

Director: David M. Evans

Ballast

‘Ballast’ tells the story of a man who has tried to commit suicide, of his brother, of his depressed ex wife and her son, a drug addicted teenager.

The suicide of a man marks a crossing point in the life of three persons, who live in a remote town in the Delta of the Mississippi, where the winter sky is always gray….or perhaps, it always feel like winter.

James, the son of the deceased, is 12 years old and has already started taking drugs and get into trouble with the local bullies.

Marlie, like the single mother she is, fights to give her son a good life, by doing heavy and lousy paid jobs; she feels powerless before the latest events James is going through.

Lawrence, a middle aged man, is forced to face and get over his brother’s suicide; the tragic event will bring the three characters together.

The initial violence of their first encounters will soon transform, out of necessity, into something that even looks like affection, and the image of a family becomes more and more clear.

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael J. Smith Sr., Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail

Director: Lance Hammer

Baby Mama

Just like many modern women, Kate Holbrook is a brilliant single business woman who has always put her professional life in front of her personal one.

She has just turned 37 and has decided it is time to have a baby; unfortunately for her she only has one chance in a million to get pregnant.

Kate is not willing to give up and convinces Angie Ostrowiski, a working class girl from Philadelphia, to be the ‘temporary’ mother of her child.

It seems simple, but it isn’t …. Soon after she finds out that Angie is pregnant, Kate seems to fall under a spell, she gets extremely enthusiastic about it, she is continuously reading some book about raising children, she redecorates her apartment and makes it baby-proof and already starts asking about the best schools.

Things get even more complicated when the ‘Baby Mama’ shows up on her doorstep saying that she has no other place to go….so Kate takes her in and tries to turn her into the perfect pregnant woman.

The 9 month wait soon turns into a very funny confrontation, but in between this whole war, they will discover there are two types of families: the one you are born into and the one you are raised into.

Release Date: 25 April 2008

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Cast: Amy Poelher, Tina Fey, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Steve Martin

Director: Michael McCullers

One of them is a single mother and the other one is just nuts and irresponsible, and they both find a very original way of earning a living.

Directed by Christine Jeffs, the film tells the story of a more or less normal family trying to make their way through life towards fulfilling their dreams.

Once a leading cheerleader, Rose Lorkowski is now a single mother, working as a housekeeper. Her sister, Norah, lives with their father, a salesman with many failed attempts to get rich.

As she desperately wants to put her son in a better school, Rose convinces Norah to get in business together in order to make some money the fast way; while they work as murder scene cleaners, the two sisters learn to really respect each other and they are finally as close as they have always yearned to be.

Release Date: 18 January 2008 (Sundance Film Festival)

Genre: Comedy, Family

Cast: Amy Adams (Rose), Emily Blunt (Norah)

Director: Christine Jeffs