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STEPMOM Send This Review to a Friend
For a while "Stepmom," written by Gigi Levangie and directed by Chris Columbus, provides some fun through the bitchy remarks of a jilted wife (Susan Sarandon) and the new younger woman (Julia Roberts) in the life of the divorced husband (Ed Harris). Sarandon and Roberts are good at the repartee as Sarandon tries to undercut every effort of Roberts to be a good stepmother to the kids in the middle. But the filmmakers are not content to just work toward a truce.
Instead they turn the film into an unabashed tearjerker by injecting cancer into the scene. Sarandon is faced with the task not only of coming to terms with her illness but passing her kids along to her successor. Sob, sob, get out the tissues. Despite the talents of all concerned, the plot stretches credibility too far save for the most impressionable. A Columbia release.
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