Coming Up Roses

Cherie is getting married and hoping to escape from her unstable mother and former stage star Diane (Bernadette Peters). No such luck. Diane and her other daughter Alice (Rachel Brosnahan) have moved into the neighborhood. They don't have money for rent and property manager Charles Aiello (Peter Friedman) is sniffing around. Neighbor Cat (Reyna de Courcy) offers Alice some work.

Rachel Brosnahan is starting out in her career. The actors are generally great but this tries to do too many things. There is the mother daughter relationship. There is Alice and Cat. All the relationships are given short shrift. Filmmaker Lisa Albright's inexperience shows. The film is like a bunch of pretty costumes but non of them really fits. I also don't like the turn in Charles mostly due to a lack of setup. There are a lot of stuff in this movie that isn't setup well or resolved satisfactorily. This has potential and good acting but it struggles to pull everything together.