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Movie Review for Georgia Rule
Movie Review for
Georgia Rule
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103 Reviews total.
Release date: 5/11/2007
Run length: 113 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Comedy
Summary:
Rebellious teenager Rachel screams, swears, drinks and is, in a word, uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lilly's San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lilly hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she'd never return--her own mother's Idaho farm. Matriarch Georgia is not your typical sweet and doting grandmother. She lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules, demanding anyone who shares her home do the same--God comes first and hard work comes a very close second. Now saddled with raising the young woman, it will require each patient breath she takes to understand Rachel's fury. But as Rachel succumbs to her summer of misery and shakes up the tiny Mormon town, Georgia notices something is changing within her granddaughter. Given structure and responsibilities, Rachel is letting her guard down and learning compassion, especially for her mother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that--regardless what happens--the ties that bind can never be broken.
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Kevin Carr
of 7M Pictures (8/0)
The characters would be better off on the set of The Jerry Springer Show than anchoring their own...
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (8/0)
There is enough to admire here that you may agree it's worth a look. At the same time, the film d...
By
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
Despite the hardworking cast, best rule this one out.
By
Marjorie Baumgarten
of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
With this film's top-notch acting ensemble, Georgia Rule has the sad taint of what might have bee...
By
Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (8/0)
...a bad idea dreadfully executed...
By
Michael Wilmington
of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
Maybe Georgia Rule should be required viewing for Paris Hilton during her term in the slammer...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Peter Rainer
of Christian Science Monitor (8/0)
It's the kind of small-town movie that looks as if it was made by people who never set foot outsi...
By
Peter Rainer
of Christian Science Monitor (8/0)
It's the kind of small-town movie that looks as if it was made by people who never set foot outsi...
By
Camerin Courtney
of Christianity Today (8/0)
Not just another bratty teen movie, but one that delves into the intriguing and heartbreaking rea...
By
Jules Brenner
of Cinema Signals (8/0)
The film's blueness (in an X-rated sense) will turn some faces red, have the guys in the audience...
By
Joshua Tyler
of CinemaBlend.com (8/0)
Georgia Rule stars Jane Fonda in the story of what her life would be like if Lindsay Lohan were h...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
Quite a bit smarter than some of director Garry Marshall's other weepies... but his big, happy, c...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Garth Franklin
of Dark Horizons (8/0)
This uncomfortable dramedy plays like an awkward fusion of 'Little Women' and 'The Accused'
By
Garth Franklin
of Dark Horizons (8/0)
This uncomfortable dramedy plays like an awkward fusion of 'Little Women' and 'The Accused'
By
Dezhda Mountz
of E! Online (8/0)
Writer Mark Andrus' script could have been sanitized and schmaltzified, but to his credit, (direc...
By
David Foucher
of EDGE Boston (8/0)
Playing a teenage tramp is not the best way to adjust a degrading public image. Georgia Rule.
By
Erik Childress
of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
Lohan's an extremely talented actress when she wants to be and it's roles in films like Mean Girl...
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
Three talented women--Fonda, Huffman, Lohan--are totally wasted in this disappointingly written a...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Vince Koehler
of Entertainment Spectrum (8/0)
In the end this film is genuine and sincere. It tugs at peoples emotions and if you have ever str...
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (8/0)
...a clunky family-therapy soaper...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
Sloppy and awkward and inappropriate, as if the most insensitive student in the class was put in ...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
Sloppy and awkward and inappropriate, as if the most insensitive student in the class was put in ...
By
Frank Lovece
of Film Journal International (8/0)
A difficult film, with particulars that don't work. But the cry-for-help desperation of its mothe...
By
Frank Lovece
of Film Journal International (8/0)
A difficult film, with particulars that don't work. But the cry-for-help desperation of its mothe...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Michael Ferraro
of Film Threat (8/0)
Just another Lifetime movie given a theatrical run due to the fact that it somehow pulled in bigg...
By
Sean O'Connell
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
...this Frankenstein's monster of screenwriting clichés never has a chance.
By
Brent Simon
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
The brassy performances and pure, at-odds variance of Georgia Rule with much of Hollywood studio ...
By
Lisa Johnson
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
Lohan stalks around in short low-cut outfits and tries to seduce everything with a penis, from a ...
By
Lisa Johnson
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
Lohan stalks around in short low-cut outfits and tries to seduce everything with a penis, from a ...
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (8/0)
[C]elebrates acting like a selfish bitch, being reflexively promiscuous, and screaming a lot at e...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Rob Vaux
of Flipside Movie Emporium (8/0)
It might have helped to put as many women behind the camera as we see behaving badly in front of ...
By
Rob Vaux
of Flipside Movie Emporium (8/0)
It might have helped to put as many women behind the camera as we see behaving badly in front of ...
By
Michael Rechtshaffen
of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
This strained dramedy falls well outside of the director's comfort level.
By
Kit Bowen
of Hollywood.com (8/0)
Strong performances and its R rating help keep Georgia Rule from being a completely overemotional...
By
Gary Brown
of Houston Community Newspapers (8/0)
Georgia Rule is about as Lohan as it can go.
By
Liz Braun
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
Georgia Rule veers back and forth awkwardly between humour and drama, getting both wrong. The var...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Josh Bell
of Las Vegas Weekly (8/0)
The tone is so inconsistent that the only effect it has is to confuse the audience.
By
Prairie Miller
of Long Island Press (8/0)
Family values go up in smoke with Lohan pretty much as the incendiary device.
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (8/0)
A lighthearted romp about sexual abuse, alcoholism, and familial angst, and, as if that weren't b...
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (8/0)
A lighthearted romp about sexual abuse, alcoholism, and familial angst, and, as if that weren't b...
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (8/0)
A comedy about sexual abuse. Nice.
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (8/0)
A comedy about sexual abuse. Nice.
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Duane Dudek
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/0)
The actresses, notably Fonda, are fine, but the characters are a collection of clichés and behavi...
By
Kevin N. Laforest
of Montreal Film Journal (8/0)
If you're able to ignore all the lameness around it, some of this is actually enjoyable in a so-w...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
Georgia Rule isn't a bad movie. It's several bad movies in one, with a good movie trying to get o...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
Georgia Rule isn't a bad movie. It's several bad movies in one, with a good movie trying to get o...
By
Elizabeth Weitzman
of New York Daily News (8/0)
Misguided at best and repellent at worst.
By
Kyle Smith
of New York Post (8/0)
I expected merely to be bored, not repulsed.
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (8/0)
It's an interesting, maddening mess -- not a terrible movie, and by no means a dull one.
By
Kam Williams
of NewsBlaze (8/0)
A genre-bending female empowerment flick masquerading as a titillating teensplurt.
By
Brian Orndorf
of OhmyNews.com (8/0)
As the family tree in desperate need of psychological pruning, Fonda, Huffman, and Lohan are flaw...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (8/0)
A berserk combination of tasteless comedy and even more tasteless melodrama.
By
Keith Phipps
of Onion AV Club (8/0)
Director Garry Marshall has too much confidence that he can match the weighty issues here with th...
By
Keith Phipps
of Onion AV Club (8/0)
Director Garry Marshall has too much confidence that he can match the weighty issues here with th...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (8/0)
Well-acted, sometimes amusing but flat-out tone-deaf.
By
Jeanne Aufmuth
of Palo Alto Weekly (8/0)
A messier-than-thou melodrama that's guaranteed to repel.
By
Carrie Rickey
of Philadelphia Inquirer (8/0)
The American public likes nothing better than a tragedy with a happy ending, William Dean Howells...
By
Cynthia Fuchs
of PopMatters (8/0)
Careless and predictable, Georgia Rule offers up the abuse victim's "sexy" acting out as alternat...
By
Glenn Kenny
of Premiere Magazine (8/0)
If there was ever a film project that deserved sabotaging, this is it.
By
Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (8/0)
Since when did sexual abuse find its way into a comedy?I guess when it's part of a screenplay wri...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
David Nusair
of Reel Film Reviews (8/0)
...it's ultimately difficult not to be drawn into the soap opera-ish exploits of the central char...
By
Mark Pfeiffer
of Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (8/0)
The subject matter in Georgia Rule--sexual abuse and alcoholism, for starters--lends itself to dr...
By
Timothy Knight
of Reel.com (8/0)
Frankly, it's a wonder that stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman didn't belly up to the bar alon...
By
Timothy Knight
of Reel.com (8/0)
Frankly, it's a wonder that stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman didn't belly up to the bar alon...
By
Michelle Orange
of Reeler (8/0)
There is formidable dramatic force behind many of the interchanges, but the balance between them ...
By
Jeffrey Chen
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (8/0)
The casting almost feels like some kind of cruel joke on Lohan.
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (8/0)
...a limp misfire.
By
Stephanie Zacharek
of Salon.com (8/0)
It's Fonda who represents the movie's real lost opportunity. Now that she's back, which filmmaker...
By
Larry Ratliff
of San Antonio Express-News (8/0)
It may not be good news for casting agents and some directors, but Lohan is the real deal. She ca...
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (8/0)
A bar of soap is a repeated element in Georgia Rule, and rightly so. Suds rise in this capably ac...
By
Mick LaSalle
of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
...a creepy, tone-deaf movie...
By
Sean McBride
of Sean the Movie Guy (8/0)
Does anybody really want to see a quirky incest comedy? Yuck.
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
...lively and occasionally funny but ultimately disappointing...
By
Jeff Shannon
of Seattle Times (8/0)
As an acting showcase -- the supporting roles are as rich as the leads -- Georgia Rule is undenia...
By
Nick Schager
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
So facile that it posits "I love you" as the quick-fix remedy for its characters' myriad, deeply ...
By
Nick Schager
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
So facile that it posits "I love you" as the quick-fix remedy for its characters' myriad, deeply ...
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (8/0)
A family drama that flies all over the place and does not do justice to the serious ethical issue...
By
Thomas Peyser
of Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) (8/0)
[An] unruly, often bracing misfire.
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
Even when the lack of forward motion in the narrative shines through, Georgia Rule is worth watch...
By
Tony Medley
of tonymedley.com (8/0)
While it has all the ingredients of bad chick flicks, this doesn't degenerate into total bathos,...
By
Tony Medley
of tonymedley.com (8/0)
While it has all the ingredients of bad chick flicks, this doesn't degenerate into total bathos,...
By
Ken Fox
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (8/0)
Spin it however they like, the troubled but talented Lohan isn't what's wrong with this misbegott...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (8/0)
...offensive, convoluted and clichéd...
By
Ella Taylor
of Village Voice (8/0)
Three noisy women and a worn-out premise rattle around in Georgia Rule, an incoherent dramedy of ...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Willie Waffle
of WaffleMovies.com (8/0)
it takes a horribly serious and painful subject then tries to surround it with a bad parody of He...
By
Susan Granger
of www.susangranger.com (8/0)
Convoluted, contrived and cliche'-ridden, evoking Robert Frost's "Home is the place where, when y...
By
Christy Lemire
of Associated Press (4/4) No reference
In the end, it's just another concoction of unbelievable characters doing unbelievable things, an...
By
Michael Sragow
of Baltimore Sun (6/1) No reference
Fonda's Georgia is hatchet-swinging Carrie Nation and bromide-bleating Dr. Phil rolled into one.
By
Richard Roeper
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/1) No reference
It's a shame Lohan's best work to date is bogged down in a film that wants to be in the same leag...
By
Michelle Alexandria
of Eclipse Magazine (7/1) No reference
Unlike the rest of today's crop of Hollywood party girl bimbos, Lindsay Lohan proves once again t...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
James Sanford
of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/1) No reference
All three (stars) are compelling and vibrant, which will make many viewers wish the actresses had...
By
Bob Strauss
of Los Angeles Daily News (7/1) No reference
No wonder Lindsay Lohan got scolded for missing work during this production; I'd also try to stay...
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/1) No reference
Minow rule: If Hector Elizondo barely makes an appearance in a Garry Marshall film, watch out. If...
By
Stephen Whitty
of Newark Star-Ledger (3/5) No reference
A murky blend of melodrama and comedy.
By
M.E. Russell
of Oregonian (7/1) No reference
Georgia Rule is a comedy-drama about three generations of women learning to love one another in a...
By
M.E. Russell
of Oregonian (7/1) No reference
Georgia Rule is a comedy-drama about three generations of women learning to love one another in a...
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Gary Thompson
of Philadelphia Daily News (7/1) No reference
If Hollywood keeps cranking out movies like Georgia Rule, specially tailored for the second Sunda...
By
Gary Thompson
of Philadelphia Daily News (7/1) No reference
If Hollywood keeps cranking out movies like Georgia Rule, specially tailored for the second Sunda...
By
Diana Saenger
of ReviewExpress.com (4/4) No reference
Georgia Rule wants to be a smart, funny movie about redemption and forgiveness, but none of the w...
By
Phoebe Flowers
of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (7/1) No reference
A far better, more absorbing melodrama than its titular conceit would have you expect.
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (6/2) Not Reachable
The audience may want to know nothing more than, Will Lohan look as good as Fonda a half-century ...
By
Mary F. Pols
of Contra Costa Times (7/1) Not Reachable
Georgia Rule is not just a bad movie, it's a creepy one.
Reviews of Georgia Rule
By
Rene Rodriguez
of Miami Herald (7/1) Not Reachable
You can see what they are striving for, but Georgia Rule is so artificial, it feels like more of ...
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