: Raising Helen
Much better than I expected. The promos made this sound like Mr. Mom kind of fish-out-of-water story, as a career woman suddenly finds herself the mother to her dead sister’s three children. I expected the typical Mom-can’t-cook-and-is-covered-with-flour scenes, kids making a mess, etc. Instead, it’s more a story of the heart, where the sister tries to do the right thing for her nieces and nephew, but keeps failing. In the end, of course, she finds a way. It’s predictable and certainly not a stretch intellectually, but it’s not slapstick silliness either. The cast is good and I liked it.
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