Is she really an alcoholic?
I know this may sound like a stupid or ignorant question, but it seems to me like she gets typecast as the alcoholic mother a lot now. Just in the last 10 years I can come up with a handful of movies where she played that role.
Killers, Surviving Christmas, Orange County. Those are the 3 main ones that I have seen, but for awhile I also thought she was the mother in License to Wed. Either way, it is strange that studios would continue to offer her this role, unless there was some hint of truth behind it.
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