Stepmom1998
Be there for the joy. Be there for the tears. Be there for each other.
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.
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A film that's sad and poignant but not without humorous moments.
在圣诞档时境推出的一部温馨佳片，它看似是说即将再婚的抓马烦心事儿，却用两个身份的女人、一个别样经历组合的家庭，传达孩子婚姻真相、死亡以及成长的小小道理。尽管Julia依然在做她擅长的东西，但Susan Sarandon的表演几乎是压制式的；她诠释“Jackie”那种将心爱“拱手让人”的不舍，却又终须接受告别的勇敢，在这种转换之间游刃有余。不过它的节奏也有些奇怪，明明最终的走向都关于两人的互相支持与最终取得和解；但到全片接近尾声时又突然安排吵架，把故事绕向一个并不干净利落的地方去。再看也觉得Ed Harris的角色近乎是值得“讨伐”的：Jackie与Isabel都受到他的牵绊，也或多或少影响了自己的事业，但他却时常缺席又以和事佬的方式出现在不同的和解场景里。四星是给最后那张代替一切的照片。
It may be unfair to ask a film like this not to be shamelessly manipulative, but wouldn't it be nice if audiences could be trusted to feel things more or less on their own without layers of unnecessary hokum entering the picture?
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