A colorful riot of Southern-fried fussin', fightin' and feudin', in which a commitment-shy bride-to-be must finally confront the larger-than-life mother whose histrionics have shaped her life. With both a Broadway play and a wedding in the works, successful dramatist Siddalee Walker (Sandra Bullock) inadvertently offends her beautiful, willful, charming, melodramatic, unpredictable and thoroughly impossible mother, Vivi (Ellen Burstyn), whose rage threatens to ripen into permanent estrangement. So Vivi's lifelong friends, Teensy (Fionnula Flanagan), Caro (Maggie Smith) and Necie (Shirley Knight), known collectively as the Ya-Yas (after a secret club they organized as...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
116 mins