Rating: NC16
Diane Keaton lights up the screen as an overbearing, matchmaking
single mother in this slightly offbeat romantic comedy from
director Michael Lehmann (HEATHERS, THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND
DOGS).
The film is a lot of fun, with both Keaton and Mandy Moore
delivering energetic performances as a loveable and pretty
believable mother-daughter team.
After seeing two of her three stunning daughters (Piper Perabo,
Lauren Graham) happily marry, Daphne Wilder (Keaton) focuses all
her worries on Milly (Moore), her youngest, most insecure, and
unlucky-in-love offspring. Twentysomething Milly has got her career
as a chef figured out, but is clueless when it comes to love,
attracting a never-ending slew of married, cheating, and closeted
men.
Taking matters into her own hands, Daphne places a personal ad for
her daughter, interviewing the suitors herself and settling on one
particularly promising young man named Jason.
Meanwhile, clueless to her motherÂ’s plans, Milly starts to fall for
Johnny, a cute musician who in spite of treating Milly like gold,
is hardly what Daphne has in mind for her daughterÂ’s future.
As Milly becomes increasingly involved with both men, Daphne must
face whether maybe she could still have her own romantic life at
age 60, instead of just living vicariously through her grown
daughters.