I dont know, this movie was bad. My wife thought it was bad...and she, I am guessing, is the "target audience" you are talking about.
This movie definitely has its share of corny moments...nay, corny hours.
I dont mind a chick flick, but after watching this my guess was Barbara Streisand wrote it...I come to find she did direct it. Why else would the main character worship her enough to say her name TWICE, EVERY DAY (according to him) when he drives home from work, a thousand miles from her. Its dumb romantic gunk, not realistic but also not inspirational or good story telling. I am guessing she loved the part she played.
"I say them in praise, I say them in regret...Lowenstein, Lowenstein." It is just way too much and its terrible.
And like I said in my other post, its strains credibility that a house gets torn up, furniture and dishes destroyed, three people get raped, three soaking wet people get killed with a knife and a shotgun (there would be, ummm, a lot of blood), a door gets kicked in, then dad comes home to a pleasant midnight dinner (????) and does not notice anything. I understand he was detached from his family emotionally, but come on. 7 Academy award nominations? Am I taking crazy pills? Dont you see this?
And you cant act like you have this serious movie with these serious characters then throw something as unrealistic as that in there to shape them. Its dumb. It could not have happened so the characters become caricatures.
My point was that silliness could pass for a lifetime movie, maybe, but 7 Academy Award nominations?
Sure we all like silly movies for different reasons. I like "Fletch", I thought "Mean Girls" was good but I am not gonna argue they deserved even one Academy Award nomination.
Neither did this piece of over-acted, over-directed, poorly written junk.
This film is hokey and lifetimish. If you like it, fine, as long as you admit you like it for its hokiness and not as a serious film that deserved Academy Awards.
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catmom2
16 years ago
Barbra did not write this - it was based on the best selling book of the same name and was adapted for the screen by the author, Pat Conroy. And while I liked the movie, I loved the book, despite the disturbing themes.
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evans54
14 years ago
I liked the movie
If you didnt why the need for all the invective?
Silence would be more appreciated
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ninakarlstrom
8 years ago
In the book the house was torn up and everything and they managed to get rid of all evidence plus the car the prison escapists came in (not in the movie though). In the book Lila cleaned up the house in a frenzy, they burned stuff and all of them made the house spotless and the dad didn't notice. That scene was taken pretty much straight from the book. And besides, he was exhausted from work and Lila made the kids not say anything. And the ending's "Lowenstein, Lowenstein" was in its whole taken straight from the book too, so that would make the book a gunky romance story as well, which it is not, nor is the movie. I myself have never even thought the Prince of Tides would be a romantic movie or a chick flick. This is pure drama with romantic elements and I quite liked it.
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