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GEORGIA RULE

Rated R

Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman

Brian’s Rating       

It’s not unusual to see characters in a movie that are unlikable.

Sometimes, they are villains, naturally evil people, and sometimes they are victims, whose trials have turned them into unpleasant people. Usually, the villains get what’s coming to them and the victims are somehow healed and perform some act of redemption. Either way, we usually know what to expect with unlikable characters.

That is not the case with Georgia Rule, the story of a grandmother, a mother, and a granddaughter who are positively miserable excuses for human beings. Circumstances place a strict disciplinarian, a drunk, and a teenage harlot together in the same household for a brief time and we are forced to watch.

It is almost unbearable.

The acting is strong, but I absolutely hated these characters. And I don’t think I was supposed to. Who do I blame that on?