Stepmom (1998)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 31
Great performances from the leads can't save this factory mill tearjerker.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 9
Great performances from the leads can't save this factory mill tearjerker.
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Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus continues to explore the family turmoil of divorce in the tearjerker Stepmom, a story that pits the birth mother against the new mother. Jackie (Susan Sarandon), a one-time book editor, is now the consummate soccer mom juggling the schedules of her two kids in her New York ranch outside of Manhattan. Her ex-husband Luke (Ed Harris), who gets weekend custody of the kids, is living in the city with a woman half his age named Isabel (Julia Roberts), a
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Julia Roberts
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Susan Sarandon
Jackie -
Ed Harris
Luke -
Jena Malone
Anna -
Liam Aiken
Ben -
Lynn Whitfield
Dr. Sweikert -
Darrell Larson
Duncan Samuels -
Mary Louise Wilson
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All Critics (73) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (31) | DVD (6)
Too loud, bright and shallow for its subject!
Top CriticIt's merely a soap opera with elevated production values and a sterling cast.
Contrived yet effective family weepie.
A sloppily scripted, formulaic tear-jerker about spoiled rich people who whine a lot. I defy you to feel anything for these characters other than the desire to slap them--even Sarandon's obligatorily terminally-ill Mom.
Conveys many of the difficulties inherent in the stepfamily arrangement and the insecurities we all tend to feel when we compare ourselves to others.
It's as cool and shameless a piece of emotional blackmail as any movie has ever produced.
Disjointed, loaded with tired expressions and disconcerting exchanges!
Beyond embarrassing!
Cae en los típicos clichés y esquemas manipuladores de tantas otras cintas
A packet of weepie nonsense!
Manipulative drivel whose main purpose is to supply an outlet for product placements!
The movie's patronizing smugness, an often ham-handed script credited to five different screenwriters and at least one major performance that's not quite in sync, seem to hamper all the good intentions.
There ain't no filmmaking gesture low enough for Stepmom.
The movie is well-intentioned and appealing, but it can't stay emotionally honest for 20 minutes at a stretch.
Cheap melodrama!
The most impressive thing about it is that the actors manage to sound so earnest while mouthing the most shameless cliches imaginable!
Columbus' awkward direction randomly maneuvers the audience's emotions from grieving to giddy.
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