Raising Helen

Buy This Item Raising Helen by Touchstone / Disney  Available from Amazon  $24.99  on 11-16-2008     Kate Hudson wrestles with unlikely motherhood in <I>Raising Helen</I>, a comedy directed with the smooth professionalism of Garry Marshall, the man who brought us such cinematic fairy tales as <I>Pretty Woman</I> and <I>The Princess Diaries</I>. Helen (Hudson, <I>How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days</I>) is an adorable hipster whose swift rise up the fashion industry ladder gets sideswiped when she finds herself responsible for raising three children, left in her care by the untimely death of one of her sisters. It's a standard frivolous-girl-grows-up story with an uneven script, but solidly performed by Hudson, John Corbett (<I>My Big Fat Greek Wedding</I>), ever-sexy Helen Mirren (<I>Calendar Girls</I>), and especially Joan Cusack (<I>In and Out</I>, <I>Addams Family Values</I>), who takes an obnoxious, uptight suburban mom and makes her the movie's emotional core. It's a miracle of acting alchemy; Cusack is one of contemporary comedy's most crucial performers. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I> Reader Reviews Is it perfect? No, of course not. But it dealt with some potential issues like what would you do if you had to find a replacement for yourself to raise your kids? I have no idea how I answered that question - fortunately I lived until my kids were adults.... but they became my kids at 12 and 13 and were someone elses kids first. I can see all sides of the issues in this movie. Fabulaous acting and plot? Not really but it was just what I needed to see right when I saw it.

Raising Helen Available from Amazon Price: $24.99 Updated on 11-16-2008.

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