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Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan in Mère-fille, mode d'emploi (2007)

Review by okbotamo

Mère-fille, mode d'emploi

6/10

Routine Hollywood entertainment job, some pretty people, formula of tying and then untying the knots

Fairly ambitious casting, to support Fonda and Lohan.

Lohan plays herself, looking mid-thirties at twenty

Hearthrobs aplenty, both male and female, for any generation.

Mix formula added all the ingredients, confusion, anger, betrayal, sorrow, tease lust, and then stirred it up.

The usual half the movie tying the knots and then the other half untying the knots It works.

Some channels try to classify it as comedy, which it is not, unless you take a campy view of somewhat silly setup and plot. It happens in some imaginary (as imagined by some coastal metro area people) Idaho (really a private one in this case), with Mormons, supposedly.

Movies prop people did try to be funny with their road signs, with this "Idaho", where, for example, shows an intersection which is about 50 miles from Boise and some 98 miles from Reno. Inside joke, I guess, saying, "hey, we really do not take all this drama seriously, it is for the noney".

While the movie, the plot, the acting, takes itself very seriously and dramatically There were also attempts to deliver memorable smart aleck one liners, in style of Shirley McLaine in Steel Magnolias. May have tried too hard.

Fonda "For a smart girl, you are good at stupid".

Or Lohan's "No good deed goes unpunished" in aftermath of sex.

Movie and pretty people will keep you busy for hour and a half. It will not hurt, much. Easy on the eye.

No money troubles, always sunny (not Philadelphia).
  • okbotamo
  • Dec 28, 2024

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