Georgia Rule Critic Reviews

A clunky family-therapy soaper.Read the full review

It's an interesting, maddening mess -- not a terrible movie, and by no means a dull one.Read the full review

No offense to either of them, but Georgia Rule suggests an Ingmar Bergman script as directed by Jerry Lewis. The subject matter is grim, the relationships are gnarled, the worldview is bleak, and, at any given moment, you suspect someone's going to be hit with a pie.Read the full review

Georgia Rule oscillates clumsily from shock to slapstick to schmaltz. The result of these big tonal swings is a cinematic strikeout.Read the full review

Proves to be more prone to malfunction than dysfunction.Read the full review

It tries to pass itself off as a film about feistiness, forgiveness and the bonds of motherhood. Instead, it deals lightly and inappropriately with promiscuity, alcoholism, drug abuse, grief and child molestation. Georgia Rule doesn't make you feel good; it makes you queasy.Read the full review

Garry Marshall has too much confidence that he can match the weighty issues here with the light comedy. He can't. Or at least he can't with this cast.Read the full review

The film is intended to be light and whimsical, but with a core of sincere emotion. But it's as if the thing were made by Martian anthropologists who assume that human audiences are as twisted as the people onscreen.Read the full review

For proof that some actresses can take on a misconceived role and get out alive, there's Huffman as Lilly.Read the full review