Marital disruptions and reconciliations in a "respectable" Southern family, thrashed out in dialogue that sounds as if you ought to be keeping tally on a scoreboard. Kyra Sedgwick is well cast as the sister of Julia Roberts (at least as far as the flat wide lips and creeping-vine tresses: no one could also match the twin-pool orbs and scooped-out crescent-moon face), and some scorekeepers might even credit Sedgwick with the higher point total. But despite screenwriter Callie Khouri's generosity with "good lines," she doesn't create very fully formed characters. And the equestrian backdrop does not net much interest. And the rumbustious "regional" background music runs miles ahead of the action. And is anyone really prepared at this point to believe Julia Roberts as a mother? -- even an absent-minded one? -- of a quite big little girl? With Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall, and Gena Rowlands; directed by Lasse Hallstrom. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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