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Raising Helen (2004)

2 Ratings: -1.0

Comedy movie directed by Garry Marshall

Kate Hudson wrestles with unlikely motherhood inRaising Helen, a comedy directed with the smooth professionalism of Garry Marshall, the man who brought us such cinematic fairy tales asPretty WomanandThe Princess Diaries. Helen (Hudson,How to Lose a Guy … see full wiki

Tags: Movies, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies

Cast: Joan Cusack, John Corbett, Spencer Breslin, Kate Hudson, Hayden Panettiere

Director: Garry Marshall

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review by gradyharp. May 08, 2005

posted in Movie Hype

One of those little Hollywood pastries without pretensions

If pretty people, stories that involve displaced families and the ultimate awakening of a free-spirited thinker to the 'joys of motherhood' sans the trials of pregnancy, a bit of slapstick humor and a dab of sentimentality are the ingredients you desire for an evening of staring at the TV/DVD, then RAISING HELEN is bound to please. The story - the unlikely sister candidate for accepting motherhood upon the death of a sister/brother-in-law - has been done before and better, but with the pleasures … more

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review by rmurray847. January 03, 2005

Some good actors wasted in a DISHONEST movie

This movie is really pretty bad on quite a few levels. It deals with a wreckless, crazy, party/career girl suddenly faced with raising three childred because her (apparently insane) sister "willed" the kids to the party girl instead of her uptight but reliable other sister. We're supposed to find this plausible. We do not. However, let's suppose we suspend that disbelief (surely it's no harder to do than believing Jennifer Garner could go from 13 to 30 in an instant...a far superior movie, by the … more

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