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BECAUSE I SAID SO

Rated PG-13

Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore

Brian’s Rating 

Of all of Hollywood’s family stereotypes, I find the meddlesome mother to be the most repellant.  And this week in this category, knocking off the reigning champion Jane Fonda’s portrayal in Monster-in-Law, we have Diane Keaton in Because I Said So. 

As the divorced and abandoned mother of three grown daughters, Keaton’s character has all of the necessary baggage required to be the controlling interfering mother the script calls for. 

Concerned that her youngest will end up alone--or worse, choose a man that her mother doesn’t approve of--mom devotes herself to finding a suitable suitor. 

In the process she becomes a sneaky, deceitful Harpy that you can’t help but hate. You know things will eventually work out, but until then, you’ve got to put up with this maternal psychopath and some surprisingly frank dialogue that goes well beyond innuendo. 

Because I Said So, made my flesh crawl. 

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