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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:23
Rotten:30
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Great performances from the leads can't save this factory mill tearjerker.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Jackie (Susan Sarandon) and Luke (Ed Harris) are divorcing after years of marriage and two children, Anna and Ben. Their new stepmother, Isabel (Julia Roberts), wants to be involved in the... [More]
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Ed Harris, Jena Malone
Director: Chris Columbus
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.
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Columbus' awkward direction randomly maneuvers the audience's emotions from grieving to giddy.
The movie is well-intentioned and appealing, but it can't stay emotionally honest for 20 minutes at a stretch.
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Top CriticToo loud, bright and shallow for its subject!
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Disjointed, loaded with tired expressions and disconcerting exchanges!
When Susan Sarandon wants you to cry, you cry. When Julia Roberts wants you to smile, you smile.
Top CriticThe acting is good, as is a fair portion of the dialogue and quite a number of individual scenes.
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Not since 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer has a mainstream movie more accurately, insightfully, humorously or tear-jerkingly dramatized family life in our time than Stepmom!
Top CriticThrough the performances and screenplay, we often do get some extremely well-written and intelligent scenes.
Despite the occasional dramatic clichè and some predictable dialogue, however, the melodrama is often effective.
Manipulative drivel whose main purpose is to supply an outlet for product placements!
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