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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, 1999

Starring: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart

Directed by: Rodrigo García

Written by: Rodrigo García

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 109 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.6

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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her can be described as thought provoking, bittersweet, and bleak. The plot revolves around pregnancy, terminal illness, and interracial relations. The main genres are drama and period. In terms of style, it involves multiple stories, is episodic, and stars a strong female character. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It takes place in the 1990s. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a girls' night.

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Rodrigo García's Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her is a wonderfully intelligent and deeply poignant series of interconnected vignettes that focus on the lives of strong, independent single women. In "This Is Dr. Keener," Glenn Close stars as a divorced doctor taking care of her elderly mother. A visit by a tarot card reader forces Keener to come to grips with her loneliness. In the marvelously perceptive "Fantasies About Rebecca," Holly Hunter is a bank manager on the verge of turning 40 who meets a disturbed homeless woman determined to share some harsh insights into Rebecca's life. Kathy Baker stars as Rose, a divorced mother raising a teenage son in "Someone for Rose"; when a little person moves into the house across the street, long-subdued sexual yearnings awaken in Rose. In "Good Night, Lilly, Good Night, Christine," Calista Flockhart is Christine, who is taking care of her dying girlfriend, reminiscing about their pasts, and worrying about the future. Finally, in "Love Waits for Kathy," Amy Brenneman plays a lonely single detective living with her blind sister, who begins reevaluating her life after finding a former classmate of hers dead from an apparent suicide. A terrific cast (which also includes Cameron Diaz, Valeria Golino, and Gregory Hines), a soft, evocative score, and a sharp, penetrating script help make García's directorial debut a shining success.