It will be no surprise from the director of Home Alone that there are pukey bits in this film, which isn't very well written. The credit 'Story by Gigi Levangie, screenplay by Gigi Levangie & Jessie Nelson & Steve Rogers and Karen Leigh Hopkins & Ronald Bass' isn't encouraging. Nor are lines like 'I'll hate her if you want me to' and 'Do you have a word limit every day you have to exceed'?
Acting pros no problem - Julia Roberts, Ed Harris and Susan Sarandon (though she does over widen her eyes once or twice too often). Jena Malone is the girl kid you don't want to hurl into the rapids. (Liam Aiken is the one you do.)
Stepmom struggles to win love of children; real mother develops cancer. It was John Williams' 777th score. Photographed by Donald McAlpine (The Dressmaker, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Down and Out in Beverley Hills, Moscow on the Hudson, Parenthood).
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