Runaway Bride (film)
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When every prop and device is displayed in the lobby on our way into the theater, we get Chris Columbus' "Stepmom." The movie begins one year after a fashion photographer named Isabel (Julia Roberts) has started dating a businessman named Luke ( Ed Harris ). She thinks it's time she can be trusted to take care of his two kids for the weekend.
8/10. Sarandon and Roberts Shine! atlasmb 30 July 2013. Stepmom is a wonderful, life-affirming film that benefits from the great direction of Chris Columbus, the beautiful music of John Williams, and a great screenplay. Ed Harris is great as the father, though his role is smaller. The two children are spot on.
Nov 2, 2019. A movie that works best on TV, but it has been forgotten over time. This one-hundred-percent family movie is about divorce and how families rebuild later. Essentially, it's a movie about losses, and how they are surmountable. Directed by Chris Columbus and dedicated by him to his late mother, who had died of cancer the previous ...
Stepmom. PG-13 1998 2h 4m Drama. List. 44% Tomatometer 93 Reviews. 75% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings. Three years after divorcing Jackie (Susan Sarandon), the mother of his children, Luke ...
Stepmom is a piece of formulaic Hollywood product that's barely redeemed by its three fine leads and top notch production values. It suffers in comparison to the similar, but far better, One True ...
Our review: Parents say ( 5 ): Kids say ( 4 ): At every step of Stepmom, audiences feel director Chris Columbus pulling the strings. The plot twists are as contrived as the swelling strings that fill the soundtrack, engineered in some Hollywood lab to jerk the tears right out of you. And yet it works, mostly due to the stellar acting on display.
Stepmom: Directed by Chris Columbus. With Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, Jena Malone. A terminally ill woman must deal with her ex-husband's new lover, who will be their children's stepmother.
