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I am no fan of Sarandon the person, but her talent as an actress is undeniable. She shines in this movie and she is what makes it fun and enjoyable to watch along with J. K. Simmons.

I went into this movie thinking it was a mother/daughter movie, and in some ways it is, but mostly this is very much Marnie's story and how she deals with grieving the loss of her beloved husband and the daughter who keeps trying to put distance between them while Marnie keeps trying to close the gap all the while exploring other outlets for her need to nurture, help and move forward with her own life. It has comedic moments that are quite fun, but I would not label this a comedy. It is a light, fun, easy watch but still with plenty of substance.

Not everyone enjoys a character study movie, but if you do I think you will enjoy The Meddler.

I'm going to go against the grain here, but I think this is a charming little money that gives you a few laughs. It's essentially about a widow and mother who uses her money to help people she doesn't really know that well but who shes formed a connection with. It's not going to blow your mind but it's feel good...

I like Susan and Rose in this movie. In addition all the supporting cast was great. The script was well written, and the scenes were shot very well in order to tell the story. The music was also very complimentary to the narration. I also enjoyed recognizing a few locations from my numerous trips to Los Angeles. The Malibu Pier, and the Mall at Glendale were my favorites. I guarantee you will laugh, and maybe even cry a little. This is a must see movie for mothers and daughters. It might even help you with your relationship if you listen and pay attention. I will recommend this to my fiends and especially to the ladies and some mothers.

What a delight to see a film in which an older woman is the central character. No coincidence then that the writer and director is a woman, Lorene Scafari who was responsible for "Seeking A Friend At The End Of The World".

The title is somewhat unkind to the well-meaning, if somewhat overpowering, Marnie, played wonderfully by Susan Sarandon who continues to shine brightly long after the days of "Thelma And Louise". In support roles, the beautiful Rose Byrne (first spotted by me in "Bridesmaids") as her daughter Lori and the gravel-voiced J K Simmons (fresh from his triumph in "Whiplash") as her knight in black leather are pitch-perfect.

This is a movie which is funny, moving and insightful - a rare treat.

"I think it's time we set some boundaries." Lori (Byrne) as been dumped by her boyfriend and is struggling with getting through the day to day grind of life. Things get worse when her overbearing and constantly there mother Marnie (Sarandon) shows up and tries to help. Eventually Lori needs a break and when she goes to New York for a job she tells her mother to stay. Without Lori to take care of Marnie finds ways to help others and, more importantly, herself. This, like many reviews, should be taken with a grain of salt. Mainly because I am a guy and this movie was not geared toward me at all. That said I didn't think the movie was that bad, but it was just nothing I could totally get invested in. Some of the scenes were funny, but Sarandon played the part in a way where it made me feel sorry for her more than anything. That may have been the intention but that is what I got out of it. Also, the movie is not what I expected. I was expecting something along the lines of a more serious Guilt Trip type movie, and this is more about Marnie finding what makes her happy. Overall, not a bad movie at all but, again, the movie isn't made for me. If you liked Hello, My Name is Doris you will like this as well. I give this a B.

Not sure why all the bad reviews. I mean it's not Oscar worthy, but a sweet simple story of a mom and adult daughter's relationship... really it's more about the mother, trying to rediscover herself after becoming a widow. This charming movie will have you laughing and crying. The pace is slow and simple as we follow along with Marnie as she navigates her new life moving from Jersey to Los Angeles to be closer to her daughter Lori. Lori has her own life problems and is busy with her job, so Marnie begins "meddling" in not only her daughter's life, but friends and even stranger's lives too... but in a really helpful kind way. It's the perfect portrayal of how a mom's unselfishness can seem selfish and annoying till you take a step back and see it from another point of view... if that makes sense. Marnie befriends all kinds of people, helping them out and keeping herself busy, while still mourning her husband who passed a few years earlier. She's like a mom to everyone she meets, while her daughter kind of pushes her away. Marnie just wants to figure out where she belongs and how she fits into this new life. It really made me think about how sometimes we take our mom's for granite and forget to appreciate their unconditional love and think of their sacrifices and feelings too. Sarandon brought an endearing quality to Marnie and I was touched by her warmth and kindheartedness. I think this is a good movie for moms and adult daughters, especially mom's of adult kids/empty-nesters (not so much for the man who doesn't appreciate a chick flick.) Oh, and the reviewers who saw it as tons of product placement/an Apple commercial, I never thought of it as that. I saw it as a newly independent elderly woman trying to figure out the high-tech world we now live in... for those of us who didn't grow up with iPhones and internet, etc. it's a whole new world to explore. 7 stars in My Humble Opinion 4/2017

Marnie (Susan Sarandon) lives an empty life after the death of her husband Joey. His death left her with more money than she needs. She moved from New York to L.A. to be close to her TV writer daughter Lori (Rose Byrne) and her grand-doggies. It's a struggle to fill her days and she is constantly trying to get into Lori's life. She's even going to Lori's therapist. Lori is suffering about her ex Jacob and from Marnie's meddling. Lori travels to New York. Marnie promises to pay for Lori's friend Jillian (Cecily Strong)'s wedding. She gives rides to Freddy from the Apple genius store. She volunteers at the hospital. Zipper (J.K. Simmons) is a retired cop working on a movie set that Marnie accidentally works onto.

This actually works better after Lori leaves town. Marnie's adventures are fun. Jillian's wedding feels a little Bridesmaids. There is an overload of funny women but it's fine. Jerrod Carmichael is a fun little appetizer but the main course is J.K. Simmons. I actually missed these characters when Marnie goes to New York. I would rather have an indie about Marnie with Jillian, Freddy, and Zipper. It's a bit depressing without them and I can only take so much.

Characters like Marnie, the role played by Susan Sarandon in this film, I find really hard to tolerate. In fact I wasn't going to watch the film but decided to only because I knew Sarandon would elevate it. And now, having read some of the reviews here, I realize how comparable it was to Sally Field's recent film, My Name is Doris.

What these two films share in common, besides being made watchable thanks to the talents of their respective main star, is that they were character portrayals of the aging baby boomer as a childlike character.

As an aging baby boomer female myself, I found myself asking, with both films, but I'll stick to The Meddler here, did Marnie take too many drugs in her youth? Because there's something so innocent, spaced out, cutesy, and ultimately kind of brain dead, about her.

Reviewers have referred to her as happy, cheerful, smiling, caring, etc. which are all accurate, but when I ask myself, is she someone I'd like to spend time with, or even have as my mother, my answer is a resounding No. Maybe because in my own family I was the "adult child" I think I'd have to assume that role with Marnie, too. Because frankly she fits into la la land so perfectly. And I always feel that characters/people like that are able to get away with something that I can't.

Which is all to say watching The Meddler was a mixed experience.

My darling wife, beloved as she may be, has one slight imperfection. Genetics has cursed her with a bladder about the size of a grape, or maybe a walnut at the most. Frequent movie goers that we are, we've perfected the drill. When (not if) she heads out to the restroom, I make note of where the plot was. Upon her return, I whisper into her ear what she missed, and generally throw in a little kiss, too.

This was the first movie where upon her return, she didn't ask what she missed. We both knew before she left that she wouldn't miss anything. For the whole movie, not much happened. Just a lot of ploddingness, talk about feelings, and perhaps two chuckles.

The trailer looked good, but it had all the funny bits. A great cast was wasted on this ho hum mess. I kept waiting for the movie to get better, but it never did. If only my watch had a turboboost option...

On the bright side, if you have a nanobladder, this may be the perfect movie for you.

Maybe You have to have lived this story with your mom to appreciate it. It was beautiful and had me laughing all the way through.

This is a watchable movie about a recent widow who moves from East to West Coast to be with her only daughter who is preoccupied with her screen writing career and her failed romance.

She fills the void in her life by helping out at the hospital and helping her daughter's friends wedding and babysitting.

The story is touching without being overly sentimental. Nothing too dramatic happens so it's realistic enough.

Susan Sarandon looks very young still. This isn't an eccentric character like Sally Field in Hello my name is Doris. Susan is still quite attractive hence lots of men interested in her in the movie. Her suitor is played by JK Simmons. Rose Byrne plays her daughter.

Worth one watch.

The meddler was not bad, it had its moments, with some funny scenes, not many though, and good performances. It, however, lacks a main plot. And it is forgettable. Still, it was enjoyable.

I did quite like this film. It was not full of some over the top drama or illogical romance I'm so used to seeing in Hollywood films. This one was more believable and relatable. Susan Sarandon was a joy to watch. There was never a dull moment with her. I didn't take much of a liking to Rose Byrne's character though. She came off as some vapid over-worked brat who was irritating to watch.

And while the film is supposedly about an overbearing mother incessantly meddling with her daughter's life, what the film actually focused on was the journey of the mother coming to terms with her late husband's death and her courage in letting go in order to be happy in life again. It wasn't really much about the daughter at all, so that's a bit confusing.

Overall, it's a great film to relax to.

Enjoyable movie, with a strong central performance by Susan Sarandon, and dependable support from Rose Byrne and J.K. Simmons.

Writer-director Lorene Scafaria tells her story skilfully, wittily and warmly. Ms Sarandon plays Marnie, a New Yorker who, following the death of her husband, relocates to L.A. to be near her screenwriter daughter Lori, played by Ms Byrne. The film is really about the two women working through their grief, but the telling of their tale is done with deftly, lightly: it isn't a heavy film. The overall tone is one of optimism, but without anything mawkish or Pollyanna-ish.

When Lori heads back to NYC to work on a TV project, Marnie knows she has to look for ways to fill her time. She volunteers as a baby-sitter to a friend of Lori's, which leads her to becoming a wedding-planner; she volunteers at a hospital, which culminates in a most unexpectedly moving scene; she stumbles into a location shoot for a movie, becomes a walk-on, and thereby finds a friend in a retired policeman played by Mr Simmons; and she befriends a young guy who helps her come to grips with her iPad (product placement, I suspect) she ends up helping him in return.

If you think there are too many story lines, you're right. This is the film's only weakness, to my mind. In particular , the iPad guy story line is redundant: it has no pay-off and, in spite of a charming performance by Jerrod Carmichael, could easily be cut from the movie, making it a lean 90 minutes instead of the slightly flabby 100 that it is.

All in all, it's a well-crafted, gently amusing piece of work.

The experience can differ from person to person. But it is a nice film for sure. If you want to watch a movie and feel good about it, then this movie serve the purpose.

It has no well defined story structure or closure.Simply we are traveling with an old widow, visiting people with her and try to see the world from her point of view.

It was all about Susan Sarandon. The 69 year old actress is preforming with full energy. She is driving around , exploring iPhone usage and meeting people. She has her excuses for everything.

If you can enjoy a nice acting performance no mater what the script is, then this is an enjoyable film. Also it becomes nicer if you can relate this character to someone from our real life.

Yes, there are some pretty big A-listers in this film....Rose Byrne, Susan Sarandon, J.K.Simmons, Jason Ritter, etc...but just because you have some well known faces in your film, it doesn't mean that you have a great film. That should be the takeaway here. My mom is a longtime fan of Susan Sarandon so I watched the film with her. Both of us were bored to tears. The uninteresting life of Marnie and her daughter just seemed to go on for ever and ever and ever. There's no climax in this film, no payoff. Nothing. It just goes on and ends and that's it. There wasn't even any indication that it was even building up to something. It's just the boring story of a mom and her daughter living in L.A. There is no reason to watch this film at all, because it's just a re- enactment of "REAL LIFE". Hell, you're probably living Marnie's life right now and I bet you're more interesting than Marnie.

my expectations from a Susan Sarandon movie are high. the movie was not a disappointment at all..I enjoyed it a lot and so did my wife, Susan Sarandon was great, Rose Byrne- who I like a lot too- did not have enough space with Susan but did great in what was left for her the story is somehow predictable, a lonely widow who meddles in her daughter messed life with all the expected funny and -not so funny- situations ..but the smart deep lines embedded make the fabric of the story much deeper and much more fun to watch. there might be some exaggerations in some parts ( like whats her name wedding) but all presented in accepetable. in one particular scene, Susan tops herself...she is sitting with her late husband brothers..and she mentions that it has been a year since he passed, they are all puzzled..you mean two years...she corrects herself at once ( I meant one year since last year) then her face shows the fact the time is not passing for her.

A quarter of a century ago, Susan Sarandon co-starred in Thelma & Louise (1991), still ranked one of the best feminist movies of all time. It sits in the pantheon of cinema greats because of how it combined the finest traditions of storytelling and movie making, and over-arched it with powerful messages about important social issues. Since then, Sarandon's name has been associated with a string of high production-value movies and great entertainment. In this context of high expectations, The Meddler (2016) is a disappointingly mediocre story about an irritating mother who farcically acts-out suppressed grief trauma following her husband's death three years earlier.

Marnie (Susan Sarandon) is a widow desperately wanting to be relevant in other people's lives as a way to avoid dealing with her own. Her husband left her financially comfortable and she likes spending money on others, whether it's a bag of bagels or paying for the entire wedding of someone she barely knows. Her daughter Lori (Rose Byrne) has relationship issues of her own and welcomes her meddling mother like a blowfly on a summer day. If that sounds like a thin storyline, several comic sketches flesh it out: like Marnie's serial visits to that helpful guy in the Apple Store; being "earth mother" for a lesbian couple's wedding; deciding what to do with her husband's ashes; and the teen-awkward steps towards starting a relationship with an ex-cop called Zipper. The 'world's most embarrassing mother' theme is squeezed for all its worth, but the endless texting, unanswered messages, and unannounced drop-ins are more wearying for viewers than for this mother-daughter duo. While buried grief lies somewhere in the deeper layers of this film, it is largely ignored or at best explored with casual superficiality.

Sarandon's acting repertoire means she can handle anything from slapstick to pathos, but she can only work with what she is given. It is a weak script, full of clichéd melodrama, tired gags, and feigned sentimentality. She is on-screen for most of the movie, staying in character as a constantly irritating person who is painfully lacking in self-awareness, or just not particularly bright. If it was directed as a serious drama, the central premise of the story might have led to a satisfying movie. But as a corny comedy, it denigrates the seriousness of its deeper themes and is more squirm-in- your-seat embarrassing than laugh-out-loud kind of funny. While this conclusion may speak against the critical grain, it comes from someone who still has Sarandon on a pedestal.