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Did anyone else have a hard time making it through this???

posted 15 years ago by Malony29
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I am not a lifetime movie kinda gal, but I heard this was coming on and like Diane Keaton, so I gave it a shot. I had a hard time getting through this. I am not sure if it was because I felt the actors had no connection, the story was slow moving, or what the hell was wrong with this movie.....it just felt like it was all over the place. Nothing was really funny, I only laughed when the grandma died on the bowling alley and went head first into the pins.(classic) Otherwise, I was getting up, doing laundry, getting a drink of water and changing the channel. This would be a dud at the box office. It was like they were trying to be a dark, quirky comedy and it WAS NOT working. If you want a great laugh and quirky, see Little Miss Sunshine.

[–] seon-2 15 years ago

I tuned out in about 15 minutes.Awful. Plus that voice is annoying---Liv Tyler ugh!
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[–] andrewpea 15 years ago

Agree with you...not fun. The joke (?) about the overbearing mother, quirky/likeable though she may be, wears thin after 15 minutes...and this film milks it (beats it) nonstop for a long, long, long time before it ends. The problem resides more with the script though, rather than the actors. Definitely some funny lines, etc., but it's a one joke premise that runs dry.

[–] StephEff 15 years ago

Same. My Nana is a huge Diane Keaton fan and my Mum and I saw it in Blockbuster, so we settled down to watch it and though we watched it all the way through, there was a definite uncomfortable atmosphere - none of us really wanted to keep watching it but none would speak up to turn it off! :P

When my mum and I later discussed the things we liked, it was obvious that we liked the characters and the IDEA of the movie (ie: the odd yet cute relationship Diane Keaton's character forms with Liv Tyler's cousin was really sweet, I think it was done really well, not over the top, but not brushed to the side), and we both agreed we would have loved it as a book, but as a movie it just wasn't done right for some reason.

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[–] bosscain 15 years ago

you didnt get this movie because it was more of a guy movie. I liked it, the thought of your elderly mom living with you and having a job with you is quite the frightening and yet comedic experience all at the same time. may you should stick with your lame old woman movies, they are more your speed.

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[–] GrammarMatters 14 years ago

I refuse to put myself through the type of torture that watching this whole piece of @$%$%$# would require.

[–] Devans00 14 years ago

I don't even recognize some of the scenes you mention because I bailed out on the movie so early. I got to the part when all the annoying people were in the diner. No one was sympathetic plus the pacing was soooooo sloooooooooow, I knew I couldn't take it to the end.

Thank god for Netflix streaming on demand. I would have been very upset if I'd waited for the DVD in the mail or rented out Hollywood Video or something.

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[–] no_junky_bikes 14 years ago

Never heard of this movie before I picked it up in the bargain bin for a couple bucks.
I made it to the diner scene then pulled the plug.
I thought the lead guy was Zack Braff!

[–] Charmed03 13 years ago

My sister got this for 90p from the bargain bin and I watched it the whole way through. I will never get the lost 90 minutes back again and at my age every moment of experiencing something great matters!
Diane Keaton played her usual supposedly quirky character role but was as usual annoying, Liv Ullman, someone tell her she is not playing an elf anymore so she doesnt have to speak in that little teeny, tiny voice and who on earth was that guy? I thought he had his lines written on the other actors chests or up on the ceiling or something. He was dreadful and talked through his nasal passages. Why was it called Smother? She wasnt particularly smothering. The only line I really liked was when Diane Keaton wished it was 1968 and be able to have another chance again, which I can identify with at the moment.
Ken Howard I liked - I always think he plays good, small roles in films.

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[–] richspenc 8 years ago

I agree. This movie was annoying, especially Diana Keaton as Smother, and that loafer brother of Liv Tyler who moved in and kept saying how his so called writing seminar kept getting moved around. You're also right, Little Miss Sunshine was hilarious.