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Critics Consensus: Solid work from Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon isn't enough save Stepmom from a story whose clumsily transparent manipulations fatally undermine a potentially affecting drama.
Critic Consensus: Solid work from Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon isn't enough save Stepmom from a story whose clumsily transparent manipulations fatally undermine a potentially affecting drama.
All Critics (55) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (31) | DVD (1)
It's merely a soap opera with elevated production values and a sterling cast.
Too loud, bright and shallow for its subject!
You won't be able to suspend your disbelief, but you will need extra tissues.
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.
A lab-engineered weepie!
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!
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!
Heartbreaking yet very heartwarming!
Super Reviewer
I'm not a huge fan of this type of stuff, but I found it not only tolerable, but actually fairly enjoyable. I think what made the movie work were the solid cast , and their decent performances. It's been a while since I saw this, so maybe a re-watch is in order to see if it still holds up.
My alltime favorite movie, can recite the lines!
Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon were absolute great in this Movie. One of the Movie that leaves a tiny bit of it in your memories.
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