
Siddalee Walker (Sandra Bullock), a famous New York City playwright, is quoted in Time Magazine and infuriates her dramatic, Southern mother. A long-distant fight wages until her mother's friends (and members of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) kidnap Siddalee and take her "home" to the South, where they hope to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.... (Full plot summary below)
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Siddalee Walker (Sandra Bullock), a famous New York City playwright, is quoted in Time Magazine and infuriates her dramatic, Southern mother. A long-distant fight wages until her mother's friends (and members of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) kidnap Siddalee and take her "home" to the South, where they hope to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.
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| Blunt ReviewEmily BluntA brilliant and touching masterpiece. It's magical! |
| Las Vegas Review-JournalCarol ClingFlaunts its quirky excesses like a New Year's Eve drunk sporting a paper party hat. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThe latest southern fried chick flick exudes so much estrogen I thought my beard was going to fall out. It suffers from a caricature-driven plot. |
| Filmcritic.comSean O'ConnellHad Sidda confronted her mother the minute she woke up in the Bayou, there's a chance we might've been saved the time and torture it takes to get to what's ultimately a disappointing conclusion. |
| L.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyKhouri manages, with terrific flair, to keep the extremes of screwball farce and blood-curdling family intensity on one continuum -- not only through the strength of the performances (including one from James Garner, who, as Sida's dad, gets the best one-liners) but in the ways they match across time. |
| Cincinnati EnquirerMargaret A. McGurkWith an assist from screenwriter Mark Andrus, and judicious borrowing from the follow-up novel Little Altars Everywhere, Ms. Khouri has tamed Rebecca Wells' sprawling narrative without sacrificing its emotional riches. |
| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisSince, at least as relates to its central plot, Ya-Ya cheerleads for the pure life-living gusto of its gaudy heroines, some spirited overacting and slathery screenwriting is less a liability than a guilty pleasure the movie is wholly in on. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardThere's death, domestic violence, alcoholism, racism, attempted suicide, and a mental breakdown. Naturally, it's a comedy about the eccentricities of Southern women. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigThe only character we get to know fully as she evolves from child to older woman is Vivi. Too bad the movie didn't also trace the lives of her "sisters." That might have been divine. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldEven though she's (Khouri) determined to give us feel-good entertainment, she's not at all afraid to let the darker moments be very dark indeed. |