Rebellious teenager Rachel (Lohan) screams, swears, drinks and is uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lily's (Huffman) San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she'd never return...her own mother's Idaho farm. Matriarch Georgia (Fonda) is not your typical sweet and doting grandmother. She lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules, demanding anyone who shares her home do the same--God comes first and hard work comes a very close second. Now saddled with raising the young woman, it will require each patient breath she takes to understand Rachel's fury. But as Rachel succumbs to her summer of misery and shakes up the tiny Mormon town, Georgia notices something is changing within her granddaughter. Given structure and responsibilities, Rachel is letting her guard down and learning compassion...especially for her mother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that the ties that bind can never be broken.
Let me start by saying that I absolutely hate Lindsay Lohan. The only "actress" that I can't stand more than her is Paris Hilton. I watched this movie because I happen to really like Felicity Huffman and the movie had one of those family working things out feel that is usually watchable. The first half of this movie was so hard to watch because it focused almost 100% on Lohan. I felt that hoodwinked by marketing feeling and was extremely close to pulling the plug. However, the second half of the movie had a lot more to do with Huffman and Jane Fonda and ended up being somewhat watchable.
I would lukewarmly recommend people seeing this. It is nowhere near a must see or even a great movie, but it does end up being watchable and you would probably really like it if you a sucker for those family hardship type movies.
