A few reservations have grown up over the years. One is Helen Hunt. Is there something rather artificial about her performance? She won against Kate Winslet (Titanic), Judi Dench (who probably should have won for Mrs Brown), Helena Bonham Carter in The Wings of the Dove (needs a rewatch) and Julie Christie (Afterglow, looks like worth watching).
The other thing is that it feels curiously made so that almost every shot is a medium to close reaction and there's few scenes in which the principals appear together, almost like they all filmed their parts separately. I'm sure they didn't, it just feels like that.
The scene in which Harold Ramis comes to sort out her son though is still one of my favourites. Shirley Knight is the mother and Jack also won the Oscar.
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