A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.
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Storyline
Approaching age sixty, Daphne Wilder divorced when she was young, has not dated since, and has raised on her own and has fostered a close, loving relationship with her three daughters, Maggie, Mae and Milly, she now assisting Milly in her successful catering business. Daphne was mother of the bride for a first time at Maggie's wedding, and a second time at Mae's wedding, but she fears there won't be a third and final time for a Milly wedding in insecure Milly attracting only who seem to be the wrong men. Not wanting Milly to turn into another "alone" version of herself at age sixty, Daphne, without telling any of her daughters let alone Milly, decides to take matters into her own hands by placing a personal ad for a potential mate for Milly. Scheduling all seventeen interviews in succession at a restaurant, Daphne finds the ad has attracted one "loser" after another, until she reaches number seventeen, Jason, an architect who is handsome and seems smart, well-bred, successful and forward thinking about his life. The two arrange for Jason to meet Milly by "accident". What Daphne does not anticipate is that there ends up being a number eighteen, Johnny, who witnessed the interviews from the sidelines as the guitarist performing at the restaurant, and while Johnny did approach Daphne in his interest in meeting Milly from what he heard of the interviews, she immediately dismissed him solely because he is a musician and thus irresponsible by nature, much like her ex-husband. In their accidental meetings, Milly embarks on a relationship with both Jason and Johnny concurrently, and upon learning about Johnny in the picture, Daphne starts pushing Jason as the favored one to Milly. Beyond Milly, Jason and Johnny's own thoughts about their two relationships, the two men who know nothing about the other being in Milly's life, a question becomes how Milly eventually learning about the ad, an inevitability, will factor into what happens, not only about Milly's love life but her relationship with her mother. In helping Milly with her love life and only fostered by watching old Gary Cooper movies, Daphne may dredge up latent feelings of romance of her own, it which she may find in the most unlikely of places. —Huggo
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- She's just your normal, overprotective, overbearing, over-the-top mother.
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- Rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity
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- TriviaThe names of the daughters, Maggie (Lauren Graham), Milly (Mandy Moore), and Mae (Piper Perabo), come from an e.e. cummings poem that starts "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May went to the beach to play one day." A student in Johnny's guitar class is named Molly.
- GoofsSeveral times Milly puts her hands into an oven without oven mitts. When she takes her hands out she is wearing oven mitts.
- Quotes
[from trailer]
Daphne Wilder: God couldn't be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers.
Maggie: What? That was on a Hallmark card we gave you
- Alternate versionsIn the Italian version, Milly and Jason are learning French instead of Italian.
- SoundtracksYes, My Darling Daughter
Written by Jack Lawrence
Performed by Sandie Shaw
Courtesy of EMI Records
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Top review
Because I Said Don't Watch It!
Michael Lehmann's 'Because I Said So' is a half-baked contrived clichéd romantic comedy wannabe. It focuses on the relationship between a mother (Diane Keaton) and a daughter (Mandy Moore) and how the mother influences her daughter to choose between two guys. Diane Keaton's Daphne Wilder is a caricature. She delivers lines that are textbook formula and pretty much acts out all the clichés of an eccentric manipulative mother. Why on earth did she agree to do such a film? Mandy Moore is surprisingly alright. Tom Everett Scott is miscast and Gabriel Macht too suffers from bad writing and is limited to smiling and crying. Lauren Graham is in 'Gilmore Girl's' Lorelai mode except that here she's a psychologist. I did enjoy her scene with Tony Hale and she does look bewitching. Piper Perabo has no role that can be described in words except that Lehmann probably cast her to show off her body in a bikini. 'Because I Said So' has nothing new to offer and no substance. It does look polished and the sets are quite nice but why waste an hour and a half on that?
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- Vì Mẹ Bảo Thế
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- Gross US & Canada
- $42,674,040
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $13,122,865
- Feb 4, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $69,485,490
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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