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Stepmom (1998)
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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
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Cheap melodrama!
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Through the performances and screenplay, we often do get some extremely well-written and intelligent scenes.
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Beyond embarrassing!
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It's a film that takes valid, complex family dynamics regarding divorce, remarriage, and parenting and reduces it all to bitchy catfighting, obvious button-pushing, and tawdry clichés.
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There ain't no filmmaking gesture low enough for Stepmom.
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Focus on the regal, flawless Sarandon and remember 'tis the season for sap.
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Disjointed, loaded with tired expressions and disconcerting exchanges!
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If your idea of holiday cheer includes a good cry, Stepmom might do.
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The script is a mishmash of clichés, inferior melodrama, and howlingly embarrassing dialogue, and the director, Chris Columbus, shows no evidence that he understands the meaning of the term 'subtle'.
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Top Criticdoesn't come close to delivering the punch of director Alan Parker's 'Shoot The Moon,' a much sturdier movie on a similar subject, but nevertheless Roberts and particularly Sarandon work overtime to make this hit-and-miss script click.
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These two actresses are so galvanized and team up so well that the women's relationship soon upstages anything having to do with the man.
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Top CriticA decently constructed dramatic piece that mainly succeeds simply because of what its great cast pours into it.
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It's as cool and shameless a piece of emotional blackmail as any movie has ever produced.
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