Georgia Rule
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| Directed by | Garry Marshall |
| Produced by | Peter Guber |
| Written by | Mark Andrus |
| Starring | Jane Fonda Lindsay Lohan Felicity Huffman Dermot Mulroney Cary Elwes Garrett Hedlund |
| Music by | John Debney |
| Cinematography | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
| Editing by | Tara Timpone |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 11, 2007 |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Gross revenue | $24,969,257 |
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Georgia Rule is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall and starring Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney, Garrett Hedlund, and Cary Elwes. The film is rated R for sexual content and some language. The film was released on May 11, 2007. The film produced middling returns at the box office and received mostly negative reviews from critics.
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[edit] Tagline
- Mother. Daughter. Grandmother. In this family, attitude doesn't skip a generation.
[edit] Plot
Rebellious teenager Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) screams, swears and drinks; she is, in a word, uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in her mother Lily's (Felicity Huffman) San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she'd never return—her own mother's house in Idaho. Matriarch Georgia (Jane Fonda) lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules—God comes first and hard work comes a very close second—and wants that anyone who shares her home do the same. Now saddled with raising the young woman, it will require each patient breath she takes to understand Rachel's fury.
Georgia arranges a job for Rachel as the office girl of Dr. Simon Ward (Dermot Mulroney), the local veterinarian, who also unofficially treats people. His two nephews Sam and Ethan are often at Georgia's house. Simon does not show interest in Rachel or other women, so she thinks he is gay. However, Simon's sister Paula (Laurie Metcalf) reveals that he is still mourning the death of his wife and son who were killed in a car collision three years earlier. He refuses to have sex with Rachel even when she tries to seduce him, but feels some passion for her mother Lily, with whom he has dated in the past.
Rachel performs oral sex on Harlan Wilson (Garrett Hedlund), who, not yet being married, was still a virgin because of his LDS (Mormon) religion. He confesses to his LDS girlfriend, who is shocked. A team of LDS girls start spying on Harlan to make sure he does not "have sex" again. After what seems like a run over using Harlan's truck, Rachel soon explains to them that what happened was over and that they can go back to having their summer fun. They agree to do so if Rachel goes home. Rachel then threatens them by saying if they have anything to do with her and Harlan again she will find all of their boyfriends and "fuck them stupid", at which point they stop insulting her and stop spying on Harlan.
While trying to make a point to Simon about survival Rachel bluntly says that her stepfather Arnold sexually molested and raped her from the time she was 12 until she turned 14. Seeing the effect of her revelation Rachel tries to convince him she lied. However, Simon told Georgia about the abuse and Georgia tells Lily, who thinks Rachel is lying. Heartbroken Lily comes to believe her daughter and begins to drink heavily. Lily asks Arnold for a divorce.
When Arnold arrives Georgia tells him to leave, and will not allow him in the house. Finally she forces him out by hitting him with a baseball bat; when he still refuses to leave the property she puts a bar of soap in his mouth. Rachel sees that Lily cannot accept the truth, and lies to her about being molested.
At the motel where Arnold is staying Rachel tells him that she has a video tape of raping her when she was 14. Arnold seems worried, which nearly convinces the viewer of his guilt. Rachel demands $10 million if he does not keep Lily happy. She admits to him that she told Lily lies because she does not want her to be upset anymore. On the way back to San Francisco Arnold tells Lily that he is giving Rachel his new red Ferrari, and Lily realizes that he is guilty.
Arnold finally admits to having raped Rachel numerous times and reveals his pedophilic nature with the excuse that Lily being a raging alcoholic made him do it; after winning an attack Lily starts, Arnold drives off, leaving Lily to walk home and keeping the money for himself.
In the end, Georgia, along with Simon, Rachel and Harlan catch up with Lily in Harlan's pick-up truck and a tearful Rachel makes up for her behavior. Harlan also mentions to Georgia that he is in love with Rachel and plans to marry her when he gets back from his two-year mission.
[edit] Cast
- Jane Fonda as Georgia Randall
- Lindsay Lohan as Rachel Wilcox
- Felicity Huffman as Lily Wilcox
- Dermot Mulroney as Simon
- Garrett Hedlund as Harlan Wilson
- Cary Elwes as Arnold
- Héctor Elizondo as Eezy
- Dylan McLaughlin as Sam
- Zachary Gordon as Ethan
- Laurie Metcalf as Paula
- Tereza Stanislav as Violin Teacher
- Fred Applegate as Townie #1
- Cynthia Ferrer as Townie #2
- Destiny Moore as Waitress (as Destiney Moore)
- Christine Lakin as Grace
- Shea Curry as Melodee
[edit] Reception
[edit] Box office
The movie opened at 2,523 theaters. The film has taken in $24,786,640 worldwide. It grossed $17.40 million on DVD rentals in the United States, making a total of $41 million.
[edit] Critical reception
Reviews of the movie were mostly negative. The film earned a Rotten rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 19 percent [1] with a Cream of the Crop rating of only seven percent. The film also had a low rating on Metacritic with a score of 25, which means Generally Negative Reviews. [2]. Georgia Rule was rated the #2 worst movie of 2007 by AOL. [3] The movie received "two thumbs down" from Ebert and Roeper, with the guest critic calling it "Lindsay Lohan's Gigli" adding that it is "a sitcom about sexual abuse."
[edit] Release
Georgia Rule was released on May 10, 2007 in Australia; May 11, 2007 in the United States; and September 13, 2007 in the Netherlands. Georgia Rule was released on DVD on September 4, 2007.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Georgia Rule at the Internet Movie Database
- Georgia Rule at Rotten Tomatoes
- Georgia Rule at Box Office Mojo
- New York Times Review
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