Free-wheeling and irresponsible Maggie Feller gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose, whom she relies on for financial support. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. However, Maggie does something to betray Rose's trust and sets off for Florida to find her estranged grandmother. A failed workplace romance forces Rose to rethink her career, a career that has been the center of her life. As Rose tentatively begins a new relationship and Maggie gets to know her grandmother, the two learn a dark family secret that helps smooth the path toward reconciliation.
Another chick flick... This film was slow to start, lethargic in the middle and crawled to the end. The characters seemed to be interesting enough to result in an engaging and amusing plot. However, the intriguing characters were wasted in a meandering plot that touched on potentially explosive scenes, but never fully followed through. The result was a blah movie that won't last long in my memory. For a film that was more than two hours, I felt unsatisfied at the end and thought that I had just wasted 2+ hours on a movie that should have been 45 minutes shorter.
Rating: 2 of 5 stars
Would I watch it again: No
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley Maclaine
I typically watch movies on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while riding the ACE Train from Tracy to Santa Clara. The opinions expressed are those of me, myself and I.
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