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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Julia is 56…too old to play the mother of a 13 year old imho…very unlikely. [/quote]
I agree with most criticisms of this movie, but I think this one is unfair. Many women manage to get pregnant in their 40s and I think our society is way more ageist with women than with men.[/quote]

I think it’s distracting to see an over-exposed celeb like Julia who we all know is closer to 60 than 50 playing a mother to a 13 year old. Why not give her two older teens?

She’s entered the part of her career where she needs to play her age or older…not younger. [/quote]

Well I am 53 and have an 12 and 9 year old so… doesn’t distract me. [/quote]

I agree.  I think I gave their ages a quick thought but otherwise it wasn’t a distraction.  But just about everything about her performance was a distraction.  Early in the movie I wondered if it was supposed to be campy, or purposefully overdone.  I stopped watching it to read some quick reviews to figure out what was going on and all the reviews were mostly positive so I kept watching.  But many times I wondered what Julia Roberts was trying to do with her performance.  The whole movie was an absolute mess.  And I did like the book, and I usually like Julia Roberts.[/quote]

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