the movie really does hang on Sarandon...when the script isn't skimming along on sitcom-mom cliches, there's something tenderly affecting in her saucer-eyed vulnerability and tentative steps towards independence
Susan Sarandon has one of her juiciest parts in years in Lorene Scafaria's comedy about an overbearing widow, which turns out to be far funnier and more charming than the synopsis suggests
by David Ehrlich [Time Out New York ]
by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]
