Georgia Rule (2007)

A troubled young woman is sent to live with her grandmother for the summer, while hiding a secret that could potentially tear her family apart.

Director:

Garry Marshall

Writer:

Mark Andrus

Stars:

Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman

3 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jane Fonda	...	Georgia
Lindsay Lohan	...	Rachel
Felicity Huffman	...	Lilly
Dermot Mulroney	...	Simon
Cary Elwes	...	Arnold
Garrett Hedlund	...	Harlan
Hector Elizondo	...	Izzy
Dylan McLaughlin	...	Sam
Zachary Gordon	...	Ethan
Laurie Metcalf	...	Paula
Tereza Stanislav	...	Violin Teacher
Fred Applegate	...	Townie #1
Cynthia Ferrer	...	Townie #2
Destiney Sue Walker	...	Waitress (as Destiney Moore)
Adreana Gonzalez	...	Izzy's Niece (as Adreana Betan)

Storyline

Rachel comes to stay with her Grandmother Georgia for the summer leaving some obvious problems behind at home. Her alcoholic mother doesn't even stay the night before rushing back out to California to be with her husband. Rachel shakes up the town, a beautiful girl in the boring Mormon country. Then she reveals her deepest secret to one of her new friends, and her mother comes rushing back to find out if its true. In the midst of this crisis the three woman become closer than ever and start to understand each other more.

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Plot Keywords:

rules | watching tv | summer | secret | woman | 

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Taglines:

Lohan attacks the village people.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexual content and some language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 May 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Georgia Rule

Filming Locations:

Halfway House Cafe - 15564 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,773,870, 13 May 2007

Gross USA:

$19,103,072

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$25,000,167

Company Credits

Production Co:

Morgan Creek Entertainment, Trust Me

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Lindsay Lohan's hair is wrapped in a towel when Georgia comes to confront her. The scene was re-shot after Lindsay was already preparing for her next movie and her hair was dyed black. You can see some of the dark hair underneath the towel.

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Goofs

When Georgia is in the kitchen at breakfast time with Harlan and Rachel, she sits down at the table and sets down a plate with two well-cooked pancakes in front of her. In the following shots, the pancakes not only change position without Georgia touching them, but are now more lightly cooked.

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Quotes

Simon: [to Harlan] Hey!
Rachel: ...is for horses, better for cows, and pigs don't eat it 'cause they don't know how.

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Connections

Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #19.200 (2011)

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Soundtracks

Face Down
Written by Ronnie Winter
Performed by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Courtesy of Virgin Records American under license from EMI Film & Television Music

User Reviews

Georgia Rule In Idaho(California)

I have to say that I was really disappointed when I went to start writing a review for this film. According to the page for this film the location shooting never got out of the state of California. I really did think that they actually shot this film in Idaho. I guess in a sense I have to tip my hat to the location managers and set designers for what they did.

That being said the film is about three generations of females in one family. Mom, Felicity Huffman, is having all kinds of behavioral problems with daughter Lindsay Lohan growing up in worldly San Francisco. So she's shipping her off to Hull, Idaho to stay with her grandmother, Jane Fonda.

Fonda's an old hand at dealing with rebellious kids as Felicity was and is quite the wild child in her day. Of course all three generations come to an agonizing reappraisal of their situation and in that fateful summer they get to know each other better.

Life does imitate art because the film is now getting reams of publicity due to Lindsay Lohan's behavioral problems in real life. And of course Jane Fonda back in the day was no stranger to being a rebellious individual. She still has a few detractors, me included, for visiting and broadcasting from a country we were at war with. Still you can't deny the talent gene.

In Georgia Rule's favor also is that it does sort of put a lie to that old line about there being no women's roles written these days. The female players definitely have center stage here.

There are three substantial male roles that are filled nicely, Dermot Mulroney as the town veterinarian and Huffman's former sweetheart, Cary Elwes as Huffman's sleazy husband and Lohan's stepfather and Garrett Hedlund as the young Mormon kid Lohan first seduces then falls for. In many ways Hedlund has the most interesting part in the film.

Best scene for me, Lohan's confrontation with the girlfriends of Hedlund's former girlfriend. Has to be seen and I have no doubt she would have carried out her 'threat' to them.

It's a good film, it has both it's serious and comic moments nicely blended.