In Second Act, Jennifer Lopez plays a 43-year-old woman who is in the process of rethinking everything.
The trigger was her boss’s rudeness by denying her a promotion to give it to someone without her experience but with a university degree.
Frustrated by the limitations the prejudices of others impose on her, she renounces her work and she is forced to reformulate herself.
Experience versus education
From then on Maya, Lopez’s character, will being a journey (at times crazy) to show that she is qualified to be a boss even without having stepped on a university.
Her boyfriend (played by Milo Ventimiglia) and her best friend (Leah Remini) will accompany Maya in her goal of demonstrating that experience is as good as education.
As a comedy, the film of the director, producer and scriptwriter Peter Segal manages to show the ups and downs a middle age crisis can generate, and at the same time how liberating that process can be.
