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21 November 2004 (USA)
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person.
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"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." Based on Anne Tyler's novel...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
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Movie Bad Guy Palance Dead at 87
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Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies at 87
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(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 13 November 2006)
Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies at 87
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Pleasant tale of quirky family
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Blythe Danner | ... | Rebecca Holmes Davitch | |
| Faye Dunaway | ... | Tina | |
| Peter Fonda | ... | Dr. Will Allenby | |
| Jack Palance | ... | Paul 'Poppy' Davitch | |
| Peter Riegert | ... | Zeb | |
| Ione Skye | ... | Minerva "Min" Foo | |
| Betsy Brandt | ... | Nono | |
| Stacy Edwards | ... | Biddy | |
| Blake Lindsley | ... | Patch | |
| Julio Oscar Mechoso | ... | J.J. Barrow | |
| Nina Foch | ... | Mrs. Holmes | |
| Anjul Nigam | ... | Hakim | |
| Cameron Watson | ... | Barry | |
| Mark Fite | ... | Jeep | |
| Oded Gross | ... | Troy |
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USA:120 min (including commercials) | Brazil:94 min
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Featured in The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2005) (TV)
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Rebecca got married to Joe when he already had three children, who didn't accept her (and still don't). Then they had a daughter together, but Joe died after only a few years and Rebecca had the entire responsibility for four girls. Not to mention Joe's Uncle Poppy. As the movie begins, she is a veteran at running the family business, planning parties. Other family members have related jobs--one daughter is a florist, and another is a caterer. All the girls have silly nicknames but not all are explained, or at least I didn't catch the explanation. Minerva, for example, looked Chinese, like a 'Min Foo', to her father when she was born. And one of the rebellious daughters, at a young age, yelled, 'No! No!' This must have been Nono.
While talking to her mother, Rebecca is reminded of Will, a former boyfriend, and she later contacts him after she discovers he is head of the physics department at the college he graduated from.
I didn't really care for any of the daughters or stepdaughters, but I felt Danner carried the movie as the charming and patient Rebecca, and Palance did a great job as well as the goofy 99-year-old uncle who was fussy and had trouble remembering. Faye Dunaway was good as the girls' self-centered appearance-conscious mother Tina, who came back for Nono's wedding but usually stayed out of their lives. The flashbacks to Rebecca's earlier life were helpful.
Peter Fonda is turning into his father. I say that never having seen Henry in anything where he wasn't old. His character was not that appealing to me, but maybe that's what he was going for. He just seemed tired of life and frustrated, though he tried to be polite to Rebecca.
The meeting between Rebecca and Will's daughter Beatrice was ... interesting.
Regardless of how I felt about most of the characters, I found this to be a charming story.