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Lovely & Amazing, 2001
English
USA
Profile of Lovely & Amazing
The mood of Lovely & Amazing is witty, bittersweet, and clever. The plot centers around following your dreams, a family in crisis, and redemption. It is a drama and comedy movie. In approach, Lovely & Amazing is realistic. The setting is Los Angeles. It happens in contemporary times. Lovely & Amazing is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a girls' night. Note that it includes sexual content.
Summary of Lovely & Amazing
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.
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| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 2 August 2002 |
| Runtime: | 91 min |
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as Michelle Marks
as Jordan
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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.
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- by: Stephanie Zacharek
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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- by: Peter Travers
