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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
A sense of abandonment is missing from this vanilla adaptation of Mona Simpson's novel about an irrepressible single mother (Susan Sarandon) who could stand a little tamping down, and her overly mature teenage daughter (self-possessed Natalie Portman) who could stand a little lightening up. Sarandon acts larger than life, but her exciting brassiness is muted by the film's neutralizing ''fairness.'' C+
Posted Nov 26, 1999
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