The upside to this family drama, which is as contrived and pretentious as its title, is the always fascinating Joan Allen. Beyond that, it's pretty much a downhill ride. The title alludes to the way three years of misdirected fury have transformed Terry Wolfmeyer (Allen, looking buff and quite beautiful) from a friendly, upper-class suburban mom into a bitter, intractable shrew who can't cope with her own four daughters. Fifteen-year-old Popeye (Evan Rachel Wood), the youngest and the film's intermittent narrator, assures us that her mother wasn't always the tart-tongued harridan we see slinging back booze for breakfast and warning her daughters that they'd best give...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
118 mins