Review of Stepmom (1998) by Cynthia T — 29 Mar 2015
Chris Columbus' final pre Harry Potter film was a little bit of a formulaic and pretentious wannabe tearjerker starring two of the biggest actresses in Hollywood competing to find common ground when it comes to their now joined family, with Julia as the Stepmom coming into the equation having to choose between career and caring for Sarandon's children, and Sarandon being the supermom who was the former career woman who is now facing down the barrel of a cancer diagnosis and has to deal with the fact that eventually she will have to release some of what she is no longer able to do to Roberts.
With the kids being so well brought up and all of the bickering between Roberts and Sarandon being so juveinile, plus with them being so afluent, it seemed as if this was an unrealistic portrayal of one of these types of stories for me to truely get involved and care for them, it felt at times I almsot wanted to smack them.
One of the few misteps for Roberts for sure with this one. And who thought of casting grumpy Ed Harris as the dad?
This review of Stepmom (1998) was written by Cynthia T on 29 Mar 2015.
Stepmom has generally received positive reviews.
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