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Overly reliant on caricatures and lacking any human insight, Because I Said So is an unfunny, cliche-ridden mess. Read critic reviews
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Daphne Wilder (Diane Keaton) is the proud mother of three women: Milly (Mandy Moore), Maggie (Lauren Graham) and Mae (Piper Perabo), and her love for her offspring knows no bounds. Because her youngest, always chooses the wrong man, she decides to take action to prevent Milly from repeating the mistakes of the past. Dating disaster ensues when Daphne tries to achieve her goal by placing an online personal ad for Milly.
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Rating: PG-13 (Partial Nudity|Dialogue|Sexual Content|Some Mature Thematic Material)
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Genre: Romance, Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Michael Lehmann
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Producer: Jessie Nelson, Paul Brooks
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Writer: Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $42.6M
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Distributor: Universal Pictures
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Production Co: Gold Circle Films
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Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
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Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)
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I really liked this film. Diane Keaton is always the best type of actress to play a mother as she's extremely funny. Both of the guys were good to look at and even though you genuinely knew
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Because the premise had great potential because the cast was highly acclaimed because the whole she-bang smacked of an intelligent comedy because the sum of these parts only amounted to one hell of a mess, Because I Said So is a giant lesson in disappointment. Disjointed, long, and formulaic to the point that the audience could watch it blindfolded, this movie cannot not even decide what type of comedy it wanted to be. What should have been a witty romantic comedy quickly descends into a wit-less slap-shtick, reducing the legendary Diane Keaton to a pratfall-prone buffoon in the process. In the PG-13-rated comedy Because I Said So, Keaton plays an overzealous mother hell-bent to find a proper suitor for her youngest and unmarried daughter (Moore), all the while unknowingly searching for love herself. Keaton works best in an ensemble comedy (Somethings Gotta Give, for instance, garnered her an Oscar nomination) and Because I Said So stacks the deck with the talented roster of Moore, Lauren Graham, and Piper Perabo to play her impossibly gorgeous daughters. If this reviewer could qualify a film based solely on it including a scene of the cast exchanging one-liners in their panties, the film would be a 4-star affair, but alas: Everybody here seemed game for a good comedy, but the story works in so many I Love Lucy-esque bits for Keaton to sell through that the ensemble could only stand by and wince in painnot at the clowning, but at the fact that they signed off on the ridiculous script. Bottom line: One giant lesson in disappointment.
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a good example of motherly love
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Just plain boring. Diane Keaton, though lovably neurotic throughout the seventies and eighties, has become a bit of a typecast in roles better suited for lesser actresses. This one in particular, that of a nosy mother who blatantly meddles in her daughters' lives, is meant for someone without the chutzpah that Keaton is so well known for. Her supporting cast is seasoned for these sort of films, meant for them. It's that difference in talent that truly makes the film sad to watch.
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