‘Georgia Rule’
The problem with this movie lies in the hands of Garry Marshall, the director, and Mark Andrus, the writer. It fails to go anywhere despite the amazing actors that were cast for this movie. The moviemakers do manage to give their stars a lot of big, dramatic moments where they can scream, cry, laugh or make startling confessions. The movie starts in high emotional gear and stays there.
Try not to make Georgia mad or she’ll pull out her four-letter words, which is madly out of character, and this tendency to go for shocks and too-quick laughs often undermines the picture’s more serious intent.
Fonda smartly continues her recent comeback; she and Huffman are crafty actresses who hurl themselves into the emotional hurly-burly and make something of it. Lohan (who got bad press on this shoot) is less lucky in her teen femme fatale/emotional victim part, which seems to have been designed to let her run wild on screen and still gain our sympathy.