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The confused script trades in such heavy topics as alcoholism and child sexual abuse, but every dramatic scene plays like one of those schmaltzy Happy Days moments that inevitably drew a big 'Awwwwww!' from the studio audience.
Time for a new book by Jane Fonda, and this time I expect a full chapter on how she got snookered into doing Georgia Rule.
The central problem with the movie isn't that it deals with several hot-button topics, but that it addresses them with a shocking lack of emotional honesty.
Georgia Rule doesn't make you feel good; it makes you queasy.
You'd think that decree No. 1 for a movie about rules would be to know exactly what kind of picture you're making and selling. Georgia Rule fails that basic test, and a whole lot of other ones besides.
It's a creepy, tone-deaf movie about three generations of women.
Oh Lindsay Lohan, where has your talent gone?
It's a comedy about sexual abuse, or at least it tries to be, and fails at with flying colors...
The kind of film your parents will cite as the reason they don't go to movies anymore.
Lohan acts out in muddled mother-daughter comedy.
A fluffy comedy about a young woman who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather.
The extras include a full length commentary by director Garry Marshall, which is mildly interesting.
Rarely awful, Garry Marshall's films consistently exhibit a veneer of banality, and Georgia Rule is no exception.
A female empowerment flick featuring some sweet intergenerational revenge.
Family values go up in smoke with Lohan pretty much as the incendiary device.
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