"The low-point of her acting career, [Diane Keaton] essays a character whose pathological interference into her daughter's life is rationalized as a product of never having had an orgasm. Nothing less, nothing more. We learn this in a scene where Daphne has lost her voice (thank God) and has to spend a few days with Milly, jotting down her frustrations on a notepad. Keaton, sadly, accepts the anti-woman reductiveness of the script with embarrassing and ingratiating gusto... wearing what appears to be dresses-cum-clown-suits of her own design and always holding a cake in her hand that inevitably splatters across her face."Ed Gonzalez, of Slant, on "Because I Said So"- and he's far too kind. What a horrid, insulting film, one made up almost entirely of telegraphed gags that are recycled from old sitcom conventions. And you have to love a movie whose central conceit is that the mother of Mandy Moore- a totally gorgeous 25-year-old who, by the way, is a professional chef- is afraid her daughter will be alone forever. Posted by Stephen Silver at January 30, 2007 10:13 PM
Oh dear. I promised my aunt I'd go see this with her over the weekend. I guess I'm in for it, eh?
Posted by: Emily at February 2, 2007 01:20 PM