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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 1998

7.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 35 Ratings

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juliej.Jul 10, 2007

A great movie that shows you can get along with almost anyone if you really try. Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon are both excellent. I've watched it dozens of times and my 4 year old grandson loves it as well.

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LeoTs3181983Sep 3, 2010

This one of Julia Roberts better,newer movies. It's not like her take offs of 1940s romance thrillers made in the late 80s and early 90s where the woman would scream"I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME!" at her man.

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Trev29Sep 2, 2012

This was quite a touching movie with great performances from its lead actresses. It was nice to watch the characters have fun at times. Great character building story.

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wendyisabigailMar 6, 2018

On the surface, Julia Robert's character seems more likeable. She is gorgeous and keeps her cool unlike her counterpart. However, the internal conflicts of a divorced, cancer patient portrayed by Susan Sarandon are so real, I couldn't helpOn the surface, Julia Robert's character seems more likeable. She is gorgeous and keeps her cool unlike her counterpart. However, the internal conflicts of a divorced, cancer patient portrayed by Susan Sarandon are so real, I couldn't help siding with her even during her darkest moments.… Expand

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FilipeNetoNov 2, 2019

A movie that works best on TV, but it has been forgotten over time.

This one-hundred-percent family movie is about divorce and how families rebuild later. Essentially, it's a movie about losses, and how they are surmountable. Directed byA movie that works best on TV, but it has been forgotten over time.

This one-hundred-percent family movie is about divorce and how families rebuild later. Essentially, it's a movie about losses, and how they are surmountable. Directed by Chris Columbus and dedicated by him to his late mother, who had died of cancer the previous year, the film also deals with cancer and death. To some extent, it may even have been a way for the director to deal with grief.

The script is simple: After divorcing Jackie, Luke decides to date photographer Isabel. But she is not welcomed by his ex-wife, who declares war on her, nor by the two children they have had, and who definitely don't want her around, seeing her as their mother's illegitimate substitute in their father's life. Isabel, a woman who never wanted to be a mother, tries to deal with children in the best way but makes mistakes and is heavily reprimanded. But everything changes when Jackie is diagnosed with cancer. The disease forces everyone to review how they relate and ultimately drives Jackie closer to Isabel.

At cast level, the two lead actresses take the film back on their own: Julia Roberts is a good actress and is in good shape here, and Susan Sarandon also does a good job, although her character is obnoxious and cynical most of the time. The end makes us feel that she has received back the bad karma she has planted. Ed Harris does what he needs to do, but his character only exists because he really had to exist, and hardly appears in most of the movie. It's a female movie. Children, of course, have a good participation as well, but they just do childish things, with the exception of Jena Malone, who is old enough to give us something else - and she can do it.

Personally, I found this movie decent enough for the TV as it reminds me of movies that are made from scratch for the small screen. There is no cinematic sense in the way everything was conceived. I've never seen him in the movie theater but I think it would go a long way ... it's a wrong-thinking movie with great actors that seem to me to be underused most of the time. Perhaps that is why it has been forgotten and, more than twenty years after its release, almost no one remembers it.… Expand

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DogeGamer2015Jul 18, 2021

Es una película muy conmovedora y sentimental; las actuaciones de Julia Roberts y Susan Sarandon son excelentes; es recomendable.

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