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Ma mère, moi et ma mère

Original title: Anywhere But Here
  • 1999
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 54m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
19K
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Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon in Ma mère, moi et ma mère (1999)
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A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.A mother and daughter search for success in Beverly Hills.

  • Director
    • Wayne Wang
  • Writers
    • Mona Simpson
    • Alvin Sargent
  • Stars
    • Susan Sarandon
    • Natalie Portman
    • Hart Bochner
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    19K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Wayne Wang
    • Writers
      • Mona Simpson
      • Alvin Sargent
    • Stars
      • Susan Sarandon
      • Natalie Portman
      • Hart Bochner
    • 115User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
    • 59Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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    Susan Sarandon
    Susan Sarandon
    • Adele August
    Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman
    • Ann August
    Hart Bochner
    Hart Bochner
    • Josh Spritzer
    Eileen Ryan
    Eileen Ryan
    • Lillian
    Ray Baker
    Ray Baker
    • Ted
    John Diehl
    John Diehl
    • Jimmy
    Shawn Hatosy
    Shawn Hatosy
    • Benny
    Bonnie Bedelia
    Bonnie Bedelia
    • Carol
    Faran Tahir
    Faran Tahir
    • Hisham Badir
    Shishir Kurup
    Shishir Kurup
    • Hisham Badir
    • (voice)
    Samantha Goldstein
    • 4 Year Old Ann
    Scott Burkholder
    Scott Burkholder
    • Man with Mercedes
    Yvonna Kopacz Wright
    Yvonna Kopacz Wright
    • Assistant Hotel Manager
    • (as Yvonna Kopacz)
    Eva Amurri
    Eva Amurri
    • Girl on T.V.
    Kieren van den Blink
    Kieren van den Blink
    • Girl on T.V.
    Jennifer Castle
    • Girl on T.V.
    Caroline Aaron
    Caroline Aaron
    • Gail Letterfine
    Bebe Drake
    Bebe Drake
    • Mrs. Rush
    • Director
      • Wayne Wang
    • Writers
      • Mona Simpson
      • Alvin Sargent
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    User reviews115

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    6khatcher-2

    fine pairing; discreet directing

    Susan Sarandon has amply shown that she is capable of turning her hand to most kinds of rôles and is especially adept at teaming up with youngsters. This is no less so in this film with the prodigious Natalie Portman: the two keep the film interesting when almost everything else is a rather blasé prêt-a-porté production, mostly due to Wayne Wang's rather uninspired directing, as well as a music score that has very little to do with the proceedings and did nothing to fill in any stop-gaps.

    The film is saved precisely by the Sarandon-Portman tandem providing an energetic display of a mother, divorced, skidding along frenetically almost hysterically, and her adolescent daughter trying to keep her young head on her shoulders and pointing in the right direction. The result is an interesting clash of personalities, veering from the dramatic to the humorous in a style which is not far from being a `road-movie'. Indeed, frequently, reminiscences of `Thelma and Louis' come to mind as the film unfurls, though `Anywhere but Here' is several rungs lower down on the ladder.

    Even so, my vote is slightly higher than the IMDb average. Hopefully we shall be able to enjoy a true drama with these two ladies in the future, but with a more exiguous director – Stephen Daldry, perhaps?
    Windwalkerz

    Anywhere and Everywhere

    I picked this movie up because I was curious to see Natalie Portman in something that was pre Star Wars. I liked this movie. Natalie and Susan were wonderful as mother and daughter. Susan Sarandon is such an outstanding actor. Better and better with every movie she does.
    Ace-38

    Excellent performance by two stellar actresses

    "Anywhere But Here" is the story of a mother who is a bit flighty and adventurous, and her daughter who is more down to earth and practical.

    First off, I'd like to say that Natalie Portman gets better and better every movie I see her in. She is an enormous talent, and continues to get better as the years go on. She really held her own and managed to shine brightly, even against a talent as large as Susan Sarandon.

    Ms. Sarandon is still no slouch either. She portrays Adelle August, a mother who desires more for her daughter than small town life in Wisconsin. She suddenly packs up one day and leaves it all behind, dragging her unwilling daughter (Ann) with her to Beverly Hills. She plays this role with a pure passion, making you believe that she is indeed, in spite of all her flaws and errors in judgement (the electric is repeatedly turned off due to forgotten bills) that she really is trying the best she can for her daughter.

    Natalie Portman, as I stated earlier, is phenomenal. Her character of Ann is believable, even though we first meet her at 14 (Ms. Portman is 17) She plays the uprooted, resentful, but loving and loyal child to the fullest extent, without ever feeling forced.

    While there is a good supporting cast, they are overshadowed by the presence of Susan and Natalie, and while they are all good, well crafted characters, the focus is clearly on the two stars. Notice a role put in by Ashley Johnson, as Ann's friend in California. Those of you who remember the show "Growing Pains" will remember her as the youngest Seaver child before that show was (mercifully) cancelled.

    If I have to have one complaint about this movie, it's that it was a bit too long. At 113 minutes, it tends to drag a bit and has a couple scenes that are either overlong or could have been edited out. But those really are few and far between.

    "Anywhere But Here" is a very strong, believable look at mothers and daughters, as well as the complexity of all family relationships. It is a skillful and subtile tearjerker (as evidenced by my friend and an entire theater full of teen girls and adult women crying during two pivital scenes). It avoids the trap of coming off heavy handed. To loosly quote the old saying, you will laugh, you will cry. Often in the same scene.

    4 out of 5
    7bh_tafe3

    Great lead performances lift an otherwise unremarkable story

    Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon play off each other beautifully in this easy going mother/ daughter drama that pulls a switcheroo on the traditional roles.

    Sarandon stars as Adele, a fairly wild, out of control dreamer, who decides to leave Bay City, Wisconsin with her daughter Anne, a grounded realist, in order to try and get a teaching job in Beverly Hills.

    If one was to summarize the script to this film in one word, it would be under developed. I mean, it's all there, a mother-daughter relationship with a role reversal, a love interest for both, a struggle between the two with a resolution, but this film just seems to happen and then end.

    You'll find yourself wondering what any of the side characters are doing in this story apart from making up numbers. The big strength is the performances from Sarandon and Portman and the way they relate to each other. The two play off each other beautifully, with Sarandon giving a fearless performance as an irresponsible, out of control, immature mother that allows Portman to make the most of her role as a responsible, careful young woman growing up and maturing with considerable dignity. This film earned Portman her first Golden Globe nomination, and is an interesting watch for any of her fans. The highlight in the film of the two together is the scene where Portman has to comfort her mother after a painful break-up with the realization written all over her face that this is an absurd reversal of the natural order.

    Most of the supporting cast are wasted, with Hart Bochner a particularly grievous waste. So big is Sarandon's performance and so arresting is Portman these characters would have dissolved into the background anyway, but it is frustrating that the script doesn't put the time into developing the side characters. While the film explores sex, death and small town boredom, we don't really know any of the characters these issues are effecting.

    Anywhere but Here is worth watching for the excellent performances from the leads, and its easy going tone. Probably not one to go out of your way to track down, but certainly worth watching on cable.
    9paulcreeden

    A difficult, but great, film.

    Wayne Wang's direction may be the ingredient which made this film much more impressive to me than "Slums of Beverly Hills", which covers remarkably similar ground. The interplay between Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman is riveting. Real chemistry there. This film succeeded in bringing me inside the dysfunctional life of these two women without dragging me down into depressed frustration. Susan Sarandon's character hammers at all the nerves which a narcissistic parent is capable of touching in an insecure adolescent. She amazingly manages to do this without coming across as floridly insane or intentionally sadistic. And, Natalie Portman deflects each attack on her character's ego with the resigned grace of an intelligent codependent child, untainted by the smug cynicism of the Natasha Lyonne character in "Slums of Beverly Hills". Portman's character is an adolescent with dignity under stress, an unusual creature in modern films. The film reaches a very satisfying resolution without trying too hard. I highly recommend this film to the viewer who wants to be challenged and entertained.

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    • Trivia
      Susan Sarandon informed the movie's producers that she would not be interested in the project if Natalie Portman was not cast as her daughter.
    • Goofs
      In the scene where Adele wakes up Ann to go see the sun rise, they are looking West out on the Pacific Ocean, but the sun would be rising in the East, not the West. To view anything in that direction, they would be watching the sun set.
    • Quotes

      Ann: You don't have a job in the Los Angeles school district.

      Adele: I have an interview, and a great outfit.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Double Jeopardy/Jakob the Liar/Mumford (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Anywhere But Here
      Written by k.d. lang and Rick Nowels

      Performed by k.d. lang

      Produced by Rick Nowels and k.d. lang

      k.d. lang appears Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records

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    • Release date
      • January 12, 2000 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Anywhere But Here
    • Filming locations
      • Beverly Hills, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Fox 2000 Pictures
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $23,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $18,670,401
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,607,137
      • Nov 14, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $23,631,929
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 54 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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