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Lovely & Amazing , 2001

English

USA

Rating:6.8
Plot

With a handful of dry one-liners that pepper the script with much-needed comic relief, LOVELY & AMAZING takes a glimpse at the everyday lives of three sisters and their middle-aged mom. Michelle (Catherine Keener) is the eldest sister. She is an artist that makes tiny chairs out of twigs and moss, but cannot seem to find a market for them. Her husband, who grows more distant daily, nags her to get a real job. The light of her life is her 8-year-old daughter, but even there, she seems to cling to an ideal vision of motherhood that she has not yet achieved. Her sister Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer), an actress, struggles to overcome insecurities about her looks and has a bad habit of collecting stray dogs. Annie (Raven Goodwin), is their adopted African American sister who is 8 years old, overweight, and feels out of place. Jane (Brenda Blethlyn), their mother, is loving but self-centered, and she is hospitalized throughout the film because of a botched liposuction surgery. Writer/Director Nicole Holofcener (WALKING AND TALKING) imbues the film with an unflinching frankness, banking hard situations and discouraging pitfalls against the stability of this closely-knit middle-class family. No matter how horrible life seems, the family is there as an indestructible safety net.

Details
Language: English
Country: USA
Release date: 2 August 2002
Runtime: 91 min
Cast and Crew
Catherine Keener

as Michelle Marks

Jake Gyllenhaal

as Jordan

Brenda Blethyn

as Jane Marks

Photos
Jake Gyllenhaal and Catherine Keener as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Jake Gyllenhaal and Catherine Keener as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Dermot Mulroney and Emily Mortimer as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Dermot Mulroney and Emily Mortimer as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Jake Gyllenhaal as Jordan in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Jake Gyllenhaal as Jordan in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Brenda Blethyn and Raven Goodwin as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Brenda Blethyn and Raven Goodwin as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Emily Mortimer as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Emily Mortimer as Elizabeth in Lovely & Amazing (2001)
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Critics Reviews
Salon.com

Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival.

Rolling Stone

In this painfully funny and touching look at the vanities and insecurities that a mother (Brenda Blethyn) can pass on to her daughters in the name of love, writer-director Nicole Holofcener ("Walking and Talking") does a chick flick right.

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