Friday 7 April 2006
Raising Helen (2004)
Well I didn't hate this movie as much as I thought I would since Kate Hudson has always seemed over-hyped to me and her co-lead, John Corbett, has annoyed me ever since I first spied his airy-fairy, hippy character in TV's "Northern Exposure". She plays a feckless young career woman lumbered with three children on her eldest sister's death and he plays a Lutheran pastor running the school they attend, and despite everything she learns to cope and "lurve" blooms. The whole shooting match was ever so twee but saved from complete nausea-inducement by some smart dialogue and by just-about-standable child actors. The best part of the film was the presence of Joan Cusack, playing the super-mom middle sister who wasn't given custody; every one of her line-readings were remarkably brittle and real and helped make the film all the more watchable for a cynic like me.
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Yes you do seem a mite cynical. I have just read the comment you made to a journal entry of mine, I was telling of a past experience of mine in which I mentioned David Hemmings etc. Your comment seemed rather sneering to me. I could of course be wrong but I decided to come see what you are all about. My you do watch a lot of movies don't you? Lighten up, I cannot for the life of me see how I was insinuating that people reading my piece might just be teeny boppers! Anyway good luck, I hope you have some nice movies to watch in the near future.
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