The characters...are so unlikable that one longs for a bit of cheap sentiment if only to make them palatable.
Soft Fruit
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Australia, United States · 1999
1h 41m
Director Christina Andreef
Starring Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Russell Dykstra, Genevieve Lemon
Genre Comedy, Drama
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For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks off regularly to meet a mystery man who may be her ex-husband. The third & youngest daughter is an unmarried nurse aware of her ticking biological clock. The only son chases after his grumpy father who seems to not care a whit about his wife's circumstances. The four are also faced my their mother's dreams to accomplish a few things before she dies - to visit a beach she had visited in the past, to see her youngest married, and to visit Paris. She also wants to be embalmed and be honored with a 21 gun salute. Thus the whole group has to set off in the quest to fulfill their mother's wishes.
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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.
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