Hollywood just can't get Red States, and it's almost pathetic to watch Hollywood's efforts to understand them. The idea of Jane Fonda playing an honest woman in Idaho is outrageous. Robert Redford, in "The Horse Whisperer", had the good sense to cast Dianne Wiest in the same role as Jane Fonda ostensibly played here. Jane Fonda's no Dianne Wiest. Or how about Dermot Mulroney, who plays the only acceptable male role? But he's lost and almost gay. Just like the guy who played a Mormon was no Mormon.
In this sense, Georgia Rule is all wrong. Garry Marshall is trying to do better than Robert Redford. Marshall fails. Marshall should have stuck to facile, urban, young girl comedy. He can do it, and do it well. There's an underlying, base plot about child abuse that is on, then off and then on again. Do we believe the accusations? Finally, I lost interest - I was too confused. (I can appreciate the nuance of Polanski directing Dunaway in Chinatown, but not Marshall directing Lohan in Georgia Rule.)
Nevertheless, I liked this movie, and I enjoyed watching it. I wasn't bored. Marshall knows how to direct, and make an entertaining movie.
In this sense, Georgia Rule is all wrong. Garry Marshall is trying to do better than Robert Redford. Marshall fails. Marshall should have stuck to facile, urban, young girl comedy. He can do it, and do it well. There's an underlying, base plot about child abuse that is on, then off and then on again. Do we believe the accusations? Finally, I lost interest - I was too confused. (I can appreciate the nuance of Polanski directing Dunaway in Chinatown, but not Marshall directing Lohan in Georgia Rule.)
Nevertheless, I liked this movie, and I enjoyed watching it. I wasn't bored. Marshall knows how to direct, and make an entertaining movie.