The characters...are so unlikable that one longs for a bit of cheap sentiment if only to make them palatable.
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The New York Times by Dana Stevens
The general talent and dedication of the ensemble mitigate the script's occasional lapses into sentimentality and noisy confrontation.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A slog to get through, but Jeanie Drynan's nuanced performance as the enduring matriarch makes it all worthwhile.
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
Bursting with grotesque burlesques of household relations.
New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Honest but also derivative and crude.
Yields beguiling nectar.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
This Australian tear-jerker finds more humor than you'd imagine possible in the story of a dying woman getting to know her adult children.