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Anywhere but Here
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
| Release : | 1999 |
| Rating : | 6.2 |
| Studio : | 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, |
| Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
| Cast : | Susan Sarandon Natalie Portman Hart Bochner Eileen Ryan Ray Baker |
| Genre : | Drama Comedy Romance |
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Anywhere But Here" is every inch an classic coming of age story from the female perspective. Sarandon and Portman are astounding in their perspective roles. They work beautifully together playing characters that are not easy to like yet very believable and people you care about. I am a daughter and now a mother of a grown up daughter and I loved this film in a way only someone who has been there on both fronts can appreciate, their heartfelt performances. It had a strong script, direction and acting I know Portman was nominated for a golden globe award. A very perceptive Beverly Hills cop who gives the best advice any parent could ever have: "Watch the signs." You've got to be right here — not anywhere but here — in the present moment to see what is going on with those you love. In conclusion Sarandon and Portman hit all the right notes in their stormy but loving relationship.
I purchased this because it is an Ashley Johnson, her around age 15, the year before What Women Want. She only has a small part in this, a friend of the lead teen, but is on screen maybe four times. Those bits are nice, to me. A big plus is that Heather DeLoach, Ermengarde in A Little Princess 1995, is also in that group of friends. For me, this DVD is essential. * Spoiler * Further than that I have problems. The lead actress, Susan Saradon as Adele, plays someone tied up in knots to be at near baby level, the more obvious main story as how disastrous that is for her teenage daughter and for herself and for society. My DVD sleeve calls this funny and touching but I find that PR blurb to be missing the point and doing down Adele and Ann both, by that. This is a comedy to the extent that Brazil - 1985 or 28 Days 2000 are. Of recent dvds I have seen, I find The Quiet and The Chumscrubber to be much more approachable in how they deal with this sort of thing. I can watch them more than once. Except there is still a need for some to follow the approach of this particular feature. There are other, less blatant, story lines and the photo shown early on is just as relevant as the mum's chains. * So. For me this is an essential DVD. But it only has ten minutes that I will want to watch often and this is scattered through the feature. The parts with the friends and parts that can give that some context.
"Anywhere But Here" is a movie that could have worked a lot better if the mother and daughter had stopped fighting with another earlier and developed more of friendship to give it a better lead up to the end.I must say the acting in "Anywhere But Here" was good from Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. After all, they couldn't help that the writer skipped a few important steps while writing the screenplay.I'm glad to have been witness to a movie that had a believable plot, which surrounded the struggles a mother and daughter go through. I think this was unique because it has been awhile since I've seen this type of plot on screen as long as I have gone to the movies.I would be hesitant to recommend this movie based on anything other than plot.
"Anywhere But Here" is a movie that could have worked a lot better if the mother and daughter had stopped fighting with another earlier and developed more of friendship to give it a better lead up to the end.I must say the acting in "Anywhere But Here" was good from Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. After all, they couldn't help that the writer skipped a few important steps while writing the screenplay.I'm glad to have been witness to a movie that had a believable plot, which surrounded the struggles a mother and daughter go through. I think this was unique because it has been awhile since I've seen this type of plot on screen as long as I have gone to the movies.I would be hesitant to recommend this movie based on anything other than plot.
