Morgan Bell
Kynaston
REVIEW: Georgia Rule
March 25th 2008 13:31
Directed: Garry Marshall (Beaches, Pretty Woman, Frankie & Johnny, The Other Sister)
Written: Mark Andrus (Life As A House, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, Lindsay Lohan
This is a film about child sexual abuse and how it affects the personalities and lives of its victims by looking at two mother-daughter relationships. Rachael (Lohan) is the teenage daughter, off the rails, promiscuous, deceitful, drug-taking and sent to her grandmothers (Fonda) for being out of control by her mother and step-father. Lilly (Huffman) is Rachaels mother, an alcoholic, estranged from the grandmother struggling to relate to her daughter or anyone really, she has issues with her parents that were left unresolved when her father died. The title "Georgia Rule" relates to the grandmothers name being Georgia and the setting of the film being at her routine home in a small mormon town, where everything in the household is subject to her strict unwavering rules. Georgia is a feisty likeable character who is like a rock trying to achieve the trust of her daughter and grand-daughter as the accusation of child sexual abuse is raised. The majority of the film is spent trying to figure out whether the accusation is true or not, who is lying, who has misunderstood, who is being manipulated, who is trying to shift blame. This is a far more palatable film then something intense and shocking like Hard Candy which deals with the same issues but aims to be disturbing. However Georgia Rule actually uses a similar plot technique of putting the viewer in the position of doubting child sex abuse claims . . . forcing the viewer to question why they have doubts . . . making you examine your own morals and beliefs with regards to sexuality and children. Georgia Rule is not focused on justice or punishment of the alledged abuser as in Hard Candy, but is instead taking a closer look at the healing process for the abused . . . there is a really positive message here about how having open communications improves the family dynamic even in the face of the most delicate and destructive adversity. Essentially Georgia Rule is a "skeletons in the closet" family drama which explores how childhood experiences determine an adults senses of right and wrong, and their ability to form relationships, to love and to trust.
Written: Mark Andrus (Life As A House, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood)
Starring: Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman, Lindsay Lohan
This is a film about child sexual abuse and how it affects the personalities and lives of its victims by looking at two mother-daughter relationships. Rachael (Lohan) is the teenage daughter, off the rails, promiscuous, deceitful, drug-taking and sent to her grandmothers (Fonda) for being out of control by her mother and step-father. Lilly (Huffman) is Rachaels mother, an alcoholic, estranged from the grandmother struggling to relate to her daughter or anyone really, she has issues with her parents that were left unresolved when her father died. The title "Georgia Rule" relates to the grandmothers name being Georgia and the setting of the film being at her routine home in a small mormon town, where everything in the household is subject to her strict unwavering rules. Georgia is a feisty likeable character who is like a rock trying to achieve the trust of her daughter and grand-daughter as the accusation of child sexual abuse is raised. The majority of the film is spent trying to figure out whether the accusation is true or not, who is lying, who has misunderstood, who is being manipulated, who is trying to shift blame. This is a far more palatable film then something intense and shocking like Hard Candy which deals with the same issues but aims to be disturbing. However Georgia Rule actually uses a similar plot technique of putting the viewer in the position of doubting child sex abuse claims . . . forcing the viewer to question why they have doubts . . . making you examine your own morals and beliefs with regards to sexuality and children. Georgia Rule is not focused on justice or punishment of the alledged abuser as in Hard Candy, but is instead taking a closer look at the healing process for the abused . . . there is a really positive message here about how having open communications improves the family dynamic even in the face of the most delicate and destructive adversity. Essentially Georgia Rule is a "skeletons in the closet" family drama which explores how childhood experiences determine an adults senses of right and wrong, and their ability to form relationships, to love and to trust.
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