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B-
Georgia Rule is a good example of a marketing bait and switch.
Dezhda Mountz
E! Online
It's an honest hard look at a very messy family, with a fantastic cast. The movie threatens to lose its way -- and its audience -- but ends up right where it should by the last scene.

Even Fonda, Huffman and Lohan can’t salvage ‘Georgia Rule,’ which is too dark to be a light comedy.
Lael Loewenstein
Los Angeles Times
Don't be misled by its upbeat trailer or the supposedly reassuring presence of director Garry Marshall. Weighted down by too much disturbing material to work as a glossy, lighthearted comedy, yet dappled with too many broad comic moments to stand as a serious film, "Georgia Rule" oscillates clumsily from shock to slapstick to schmaltz. The result of these big tonal swings is a cinematic strikeout.

**1/2 (out of four stars)
The actresses rule in this soapy story of 3 generations
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
The American public likes nothing better than a tragedy with a happy ending, William Dean Howells observed. But Marshall so cautiously downplays the tragic elements of his plot that the sweetness and light left a sour taste in my mouth.

Script, direction doom "Georgia Rule"
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It's the sort of you'll-laugh-you'll-cry drivel that's so beneath its talented cast you have to wonder how everyone ended up here -- sort of like Custer and his Last Stand.