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- 2007
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 2007
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Summary In a comedy that explores when it's finally time to cut the apron strings, Diane Keaton stars as a mother whose loves knows no bounds or boundaries. (Universal)
Directed By: Michael Lehmann
Written By: Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson
- 2007
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
- 2007
- PG-13
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 42 m
Because I Said So
26
4.9
Where to Watch
Summary In a comedy that explores when it's finally time to cut the apron strings, Diane Keaton stars as a mother whose loves knows no bounds or boundaries. (Universal)
Directed By: Michael Lehmann
Written By: Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
26
3% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
27% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
70% Negative
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
26
3% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
27% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
70% Negative
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
Despite being rooted firmly in "chick flick" territory (with a high "cuteness" index), it has the capacity to please to viewers of both genders who appreciate the genre.
Keaton is so over-the-top, so loud and so physically animated that when
Daphne develops a case of laryngitis mid-way through the movie, it's as if a
neighbor's car alarm has finally been shut down. However, in those silent moments, when Daphne is communicating with notes, you realize how much you like this actress.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 User Ratings
4.9
32% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
36% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
32% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 User Ratings
4.9
32% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
36% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
32% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
A traditional Mother/Daughter relationship story for the screen. Not nearly as awful as critics out to be. Diane Keaton - great as ever with Mandy Moore.
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As much as I love Diane Keaton and want to say that this is a worthwhile movie, I just can't bring myself to do it. The story has plot holes so large that a John Deer could fall in and never be found. The ridiculous sexual undertone is completely tacky and unnecessary. It's predictable, underdeveloped, and not at all clever. It's worth seeing if you happen to have Netflix, but it's not worth seeing in a theater.
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Formulaic romantic junk.
A sloppily made bowl of reheated chick-flick cliches.
It's hard to imagine how the movie year could possibly produce a more annoyingly stupid movie. It's so witless, broadly played and insulting to anyone's intelligence that it's almost as offensive, in its own way, as "Jackass: The Movie."
This film bespeaks a truly startling mistrust of the movie audience, and, what's more, a disrespect for the feature film medium. Yes, of course it was conceived as an unpretentious entertainment pitched mainly to girls and young women. Yet that doesn't explain the nightmarish quality of the finished product.
There are to many good directors waiting for an opportunity to make great movies with great ideas, but Hollywood rather to make stupid movies like this one
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How annoying can one woman be? Come back mother-in-law, all is forgiven.
If you can stand to watch this movie without wanting to eject the DVD, player, TV and any female in the direct vicinity from the 10th floor of your apartment building, you are either a buddhist monk in anger-management class or someone has locked you into a cage and, tied you in a straightjacket and pinned-back you eyelids.
I'm normally not given to killing women but this movie had me thinking about it. They should make a video game where you can shoot the cast.
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Production Company
Universal Pictures,
Gold Circle Films
Release Date Feb 2, 2007
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline She's just your normal, overprotective, overbearing, over-the-top mother.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
