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Georgia Rule (2007)

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 117
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 97

Comedic and dramatic in all the wrong places, Georgia Rule is a confused dramedy that wastes the talents of its fine cast.

6

Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 29

Comedic and dramatic in all the wrong places, Georgia Rule is a confused dramedy that wastes the talents of its fine cast.

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Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 408,164

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Movie Info

Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, and Lindsay Lohan star in director Garry Marshall's tale of a rebellious young woman who is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother when her frustrated mother fails to find a means of curbing her unruly behavior. Rachel (Lohan) is an out-of-control teen whose reckless drinking, foul mouth, and hysterical fits have become a constant source of embarrassment for her long-suffering mother, Lily (Huffman). When Rachel crashes her car, Lily determines that the only

R, 1 hr. 53 min.

Drama, Comedy

,

Mark Andrus

Sep 4, 2007

$18.9M

Universal Pictures

Cast

All Critics (121) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (102) | DVD (12)

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.

December 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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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.

May 16, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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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.

May 12, 2007 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment (1)
ReelViews
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Georgia Rule doesn't make you feel good; it makes you queasy.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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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.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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It's a creepy, tone-deaf movie about three generations of women.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Oh Lindsay Lohan, where has your talent gone?

August 23, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment

It's a comedy about sexual abuse, or at least it tries to be, and fails at with flying colors...

April 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

The kind of film your parents will cite as the reason they don't go to movies anymore.

January 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Comment
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

Lohan acts out in muddled mother-daughter comedy.

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

A fluffy comedy about a young woman who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

The extras include a full length commentary by director Garry Marshall, which is mildly interesting.

September 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Rarely awful, Garry Marshall's films consistently exhibit a veneer of banality, and Georgia Rule is no exception.

September 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

A female empowerment flick featuring some sweet intergenerational revenge.

September 1, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

Family values go up in smoke with Lohan pretty much as the incendiary device.

September 1, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Long Island Press

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June 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Georgia Rule

WASN'T INTERESTED IN SEEING THIS MOVIE, BUT I HAPPEND TO COME ACROSSED IT ON T.V. ON A BORING SUNDAY NIGHT. THE TRUTH IS I HAD NO DESIRE TO SEE THIS MOVIE BECAUSE IT STARS LINDSAY LOHAN. NOT A BIG FAN, BUT WHEN SHE TRYS, SHE CAN ACT. THIS MOVIE THOUGH WASN'T WATCHED BY MANY BECAUSE OF ALL THE HYPE IT WAS GETTING ABOUT

April 26, 2009
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Super Reviewer

no-one should have to admit that theyve seen this... and i never will! .... uh i mean... i never will see it..yea

June 14, 2009
LoughnerWasLucid

Super Reviewer

    1. Rachel: Try and jerk me around, Grandma.
    2. Georgia: Go fuck yourself.
    – Submitted by Jesus F (2 months ago)

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