Different Flowers

I heard about this movie from a friend and decided to check it out. I am glad I did. My family watched it over break and there was something in this movie for everyone. The detail and care the director went to made this such an enjoyable film for everyone. Grandma Mildred, Shelley Long, was delightful in this movie. The setting in a farm town was very fun to watch. All the characters added so much to each scene; I want to go to the diner!! It is a story that captures you from the first scene and you want to see it to the end because each scene holds something new and interesting. I give it a thumbs up and will watch it again on Showtime.

It was kind of a road movie, but it all had ended sooner than the rest of the story come into effect. The story of a runaway bride. She hits the road with her troubled little sister. They decide to go to the place where they grew up together. Along the way, they encounter a few things. Like doing some mischievous things, shopping, et cetera. When they reach their destination, they try to make the most of it like nothing had happened. But it always keeps haunting them, which leads to quarrels between them. So what happens later, how their unplanned trip ends were revealed in the remaining parts.

It was so simple. But there's nothing new. The cast, especially the two sisters makes it looks decent. Personally, I liked the little one. I thought it was predictable, and in the most cases it was, but there were some unexpected new developments happened. Particularly the new romance. After all it was not a bad film. But if you think so, then it's just you are not the audience they aimed for. Maybe if I was a woman, I could have liked it better. I've enjoyed watching it, but in the end, I felt it was an average film. I hope the film finds its audience, one of them could be you. So choose it wisely.

6/10

Okay, the sister meets a guy at the store, broad daylight says stays near her grandmother. Was hrs, dark before made it to the house.

Runaway bride and her sister take off on a road trip. Bride acts like it's no big deal that she just broke her boyfriend's heart and wasted thousands of dollars of her parents' money and embarrassed them. She just changed her mind. The sister is just as self centered. Guess this was made for 15 yr old girls. Sure hope they don't think this is the way to act. Nothing funny about this movie.

I watched this film because I found the story of a young woman, jilting her beau and going on a journey of self-discovery--with her flamboyant sister no less--would present interesting conflict. If this was a vanity project for Shelley Long, she needs a long look in the mirror, because instead of a worthwhile story, what the viewer gets is a formulaic, meandering 99 minutes that ends predictably, but could have been so much better with a few tweaks. The problem is underscored by the movies ending, when Millie--the runaway bride--has her epiphany, which comes with such a suddenness that it seems as if the writer centered the entire premise around that one scene. Two, the grandmotherly advice given (Shelly Long) at the end would have better served both Millie and Ellen (her sister) had it been imparted before the sisters hit the road; in this way, it would have given a believable reason for the sisters' on-the-road conflict. However, the film does offer two solid performances by the sister, played by Emman Bell (whom viewers might remember as Amy Harrison on The Walking Dead) and Hope Lauren. But Long comes up short as the sage grandmother, and the men are cookie-cutter softies and horn dogs whose presence is largely irrelevant. In short, the film comes off as out of sequence and a waste of time unless you literally have nothing better to do than waste an hour and a half.