By and large the portrayal I thought was fair on ALL SIDES, not only for the Catholics but all the other characters.I'll be honest and say I FULLY EXPECTED a "Christians are stupid knuckle dragging Neanderthals" flick - I expected to shut it off half way through. Use the HTML below. Her unhappily married son Frank Jr. (Jason Ritter) is having an affair with the local manicurist. And when a series of crises forces Eileen to re-examine her values and beliefs, Turner rises magnificently to the occasion. Nothing to write the award shows about. I'm Catholic") but overall, the portrayal is VERY accurate to my Catholic upbringing and those in the faith I know today. Don't have an account? This story has some elements of suspense, is rather well-acted and also has the beautiful Jennifer O'Neill as a recent widow with two daughters. I watched this on a whim because it showed up on some recommendation list. It wasn't the worst movie I've seen and I did enjoy seeing Emily in her limited scenes but I'd probably pass this title by if you haven't seen it before. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York. A resolutely middle-of-the-road affair that never locates and communicates a very persuasive reason for its existence, or even a compelling dramatic throughline. |, May 4, 2012 By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. But it's VERY watchable, totally held my attention, was touching in places, and ENJOYABLE to watch right up to the end for me.Give it a shot - don't let the negative reviews implying it's a "Christian bashing" flick deter you. After setting up camp in Central Park, he encounters a group of people even needier than himself. Great music, talented actors and an intriguing plot - that's what makes this movie worth watching. Was this review helpful to you? "The Perfect Family'' is Kathleen Turner's show. 'Growing up has nothing to do with age' reads the slogan to this movie, and we couldn't agree more. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. With Janice comes her brother Allan, who is an alcoholic. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. After watching movies like 'Walk in the Clouds', you start to believe that universal values like beauty and love might still just save our crazy old world. Ultimately this is a feel-good movie and Eileen proves herself to be a person worthy of both the award and her family. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Add the first question. At the most fundamental level, as a work of entertainment, it fails. The Perfect Family stars Kathleen Turner as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. | Rating: 3/4 When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school. However, as time progresses, the mystery surrounding Allan begins to fall away. The acting was semi good. It is anti-religious in a positive way (rules-rules-rules). Eileen Cleary has just been nominated for Catholic Woman of the year when her family drop a bombshell. An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles. I would wonder how many of those folks actually WATCHED it or just wrote a review based on a presupposed notion. Maggie, a recent widow, hires a housekeeper, Janice, to help her care for her two young daughters. | Rating: C Perfect Family () R | 1h 32min | Thriller | TV Movie 11 November 1992 Maggie, a recent widow, hires a housekeeper, Janice, to help her care for her two young daughters. Directed by Anne Renton. I actually liked this a little more than I thought I would. And it has the wonderful Richard Chamberlain playing a priest again! An anodyne tale of family-centered acceptance that's neither comical when it wants to be nor touching when it strivers for pathos. She is in constant denial about the choices her family has made about their own lives and continues to live in this bliss until it all comes crumbling down around her. Dumb and Dumber To / Ted / A Million Ways to Die in the West 3-Movie Laugh Pack, The Cabin in the Woods 4K Ultra HD [Blu-ray], Romancing the Stone [Blu-ray] by 20th Century Fox. | Rating: C- | Rating: B- 'Yours, Mine & Ours' is one great must-see movie for the whole family. O'Neill keeps her cool and tries to save her daughters. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. A widow tries to find out why her daughter's strange behavior, a reaction to her father's death, is progressively worsening. The trailers make it look like an irreverent, iconoclastic satire; in fact it's dramatic - when it isn't dull and obvious. A cinematic 'meh' if ever there were one. |, November 26, 2019 A female PI babysitting for a boyfriend gets stuck with his daughter and the case of her murdered father. Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2014. Please try again. Over the dinner table she discovers that not only is her son leaving his wife and children for the local beautician, but her daughter is 5 months pregnant and about to marry her girlfriend. She then goes about trying to They are based on clean family movie suggestions and research. Sure, hardly ANY nuns still wear the habit - but it's just little things. Here, 40 family movies that all generations will love, including plenty of throwbacks from your own childhood.