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One of my all time favorites.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

What a difference three years makes. Back in 2004 Lindsay Lohan was wickedly fresh as a daisy in the teenage drama "Mean Girls". Three years later in "Georgia Rule", I look at her and I ask myself, what happened? I mean she's still got some sort of physical attraction here, but compared to "Mean Girls", she looks jaded and looking like she's entering into a world of sorrow and lament. It feels like she's aged drastically. At the time Lohan was 21 years old, but in "Georgia Rule", she looks like she's aged to 31."Georgia Rule" is equally disjointed and out of focus as Lohan's physical presence. It's kind of a sinister, out of touch film that focuses primarily on three generations of the Wilcox/Randall family clan. Wehave the tough and disciplined grandmother Georgia Randall (Jane Fonda),the ever inebriated mother Lilly (Felicity Huffman) and the rebellious,sex-craving daughter, Rachel (Lohan). The idea of an out-of control daughter may have some levels of intrigue, but director Garry Marshall and screenwriter Mark Andrus turn a blind eye towards her incorrigible ways. Let alone the fact that Miss Lohan looks less like a teenager and more like a lounge singer playing Broadway musicals in karaoke bars.Maybe it might work in the Hollywood industry, but switch to reality for just a second, but if the opening scenes feature a teenage daughter, belittling, ostracizing and verbally bullying your own mother, you're all programmed to hate this snotty little punk. Oh, that's right, Rachel is an angry late adolescent who's so undisciplined that her mother made her leave her home in San Francisco to spend some time at grandma's house in Idaho, where she's hopes will set her straight. Where's the responsibility mom? Or is something I like to call an urban renewal?Does Grandma Georgia really need an incorrigible child placed at her doorstep? She's a women of moral restriction with an obsessive compulsiveness for tight, at the exact minute of scheduling, even though she seems lenient towards the neighborhood children. But she still dwells back to the fact her daughter's a drunk and her granddaughter is out-of-control and promiscuous. The purpose of this story is that in spite all their shortcomings, they love each other. But it's panned out in the cruelest of taste.The tone of the film is extremely jarring it left me wondering are these people for real? The movie was made to have a light drama with touches of comedy for good measure. But I felt very little in lightness or anything I could pass off as comical. This movie was cynical in approach and Marshall gave us the impression that his audience are as mixed up as the characters on screen.One supposed "funny" scene has Rachel making lustful passes with an overly religious Mormon named Harlan Wilson (Garrett Hedlund) then performing off camera oral sex. It gets better! There's a scene where she threatens these goody-goody Mormon girls to engage in lascivious relations with their boyfriends. In other words, be like her and you will be "cool". But is she "cool"? Not in the slightest, in fact I find her and her dysfunctional family nothing more than hypocrites who preach but don't practice.Here we have Rachel threatening these girls she will get all raunchy with their other halves and yet we get a revealing that Rachel's step-father, Arnold (Cary Elwes) sexually molested her. By now Lilly is now a full-blown inebriate. Which is strange because Grandma Georgia disallows alcoholism in her household and yet she's got shelves of booze to keep Lilly amused as she's lying in her underwear getting stewed. This is a horrible family with horrible people and it sickens me that Fonda, Huffman and Lohan are incredibly talented performers makes it even harder to swallow. It's not that they're wasting away here every foundation of this movie is based off of lies. It tries to be truthful, but fails at every attempt.The sexual abuse subplot is the the hardest one to take into account because of the hypocrisy that comes all around. We get cringing jokes about oral sex and yet you have Rachel, flaunting around town engaging in sexual activities with the town. But then we're supposed to feel sorry for her once the serious topic of sexual abuse comes around and we're forced into thinking she's just a poor lost soul. Like we should just forget about all the heartbreak Rachel has because we don't approve of her stepfather who sexually abused her when she was twelve.

Georgia Rule (2007): Dir: Garry Marshall / Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney, Cary Elwes: Rule in question regards bonding within three generations. Jane Fonda plays a grandmother in Idaho. Felicity Huffman plays her alcoholic daughter. Lindsay Lohan plays the granddaughter who cannot differentiate between truth or lie. Flawed with its comical ads that cover serious undertones. Director Garry Marshall does a fantastic job. He is famed for such films as Pretty Woman and Overboard. Fonda is terrific as the no nonsense grandmother who will no doubt set everything and everyone straight. Huffman struggles to understand her daughter and what is right or wrong. She also deals with alcoholism and an ex-husband her daughter claims molested her when she was younger. It is difficult to accept her state of being in the end because she is jerked in so many directions for a sappy ending to work. Lohan is wonderful as the foul mouth daughter who deflowers a local male and attempts to seduce an old fling of her mother. Her revelation is also difficult to accept. Dermot Mulroney plays a veterinarian who used to date Huffman. Cary Elwes plays Huffman's ex and Lohan's stepfather whose presence is unwelcome by Fonda. While the conclusion might try to tidy things up too abruptly, the film stresses the strength in family and rules made to mend. Score: 8 / 10

This movie had a stellar cast and is excellently written, directed and acted. Given Lindsay Lohan's personal problems during the making of movie, that is a testament to everyone's conviction. In fact, Ms. Lohan was almost fired. The producers apparently had to send her a letter warning her that if she didn't shape up, she'd have to ship out.This is really shocking and explains how bad Lohan's addictions are. Any actor who has the chance to work with the likes of Fonda should be thanking their lucky stars, to say the least. I also heard that Fonda herself showed up at Lohans' trailer and told her to get her butt in gear -- because the crew was waiting for her! Yay for Jane! Too bad it didn't have a lasting impact. Nonetheless, it is always a pleasure to see Fonda and Huffman -- Lohan is a good actor herself. Now if she could just get her "act" together!

I may have to agree with previous reviewers about the marketing of this movie. This should have received better exposure. I saw this on Lifetime and enjoyed this movie. I may look for it on DVD.Lindsay's acting was superb. I also thought the Harlan and Dr. Simon were interesting. Of course, Felicity Huffman had great moments as Lindsay's mother. Jane Fonda played her role perfectly as Linday's grandmother. I had not seen her in a role such as this before. I really would have liked to see her character receive more exposure in this movie.I am surprised that Lohan and Huffman did not receive more acknowledgment for their dramatic roles.