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Movie Overview
Cast
• Diane Keaton
• Mandy Moore
• Piper Perabo
Director
• Michael Lehmann
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - Rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity.
Because I Said So (2007)

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OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten
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"Diane Keaton has delivered many terrific film performances, but her over-the-top work in 'Because I Said So' isn't one of them."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

F-
"Apparently retrieved from a dumpster, labeled "Rejected Sitcom Brain Farts," at the Universal back lot and Scotch-taped back together, the screenplay can only be described as a crime against moviegoers worldwide."  FromTheBalcony  Bill Clark

2/10
"It's a perfect title for a film so utterly lacking in worthwhile qualities that there is no logical reason to actually see it."  Freeze Dried Movies  Brian Juergens

D-
"Because ends up a joyless, patronizing, and obnoxious 100-minute-long commercial for matricide."  OhmyNews.com  Brian Orndorf

1.5/5
"scattershot and misbegotten by even normal romantic comedy standards"  Filmcritic.com  Chris Cabin

D
"In this unwatchable romantic comedy from director Michael Lehmann Diane Keaton plays Daphne Wilder, an inept mother of three pretty but not-believable-as-siblings daughters."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

1/10
"In lieu of plot, it’s cluttered with bad driving scenes, dog reaction shots, falling-splat-with-cakes scenes, and watching old movies scenes."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

1.5/4
"...Keaton [delivers] a painfully over-the-top, tic-ridden performance..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

1/4
"The only good use for Because I Said So would be as a step-by-step handbook on how not to make a romantic comedy."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

.5/4
"Welcome to the rom-com in the age of Must Love Dogs."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

D
"The film contains no laughs, no purpose, and no entertainment."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

1.5/4
"Relentlessly exhaustive, simple-minded, unoriginal and inconsequential Because I Said So seems very disconnected in its bid for cockeyed conviction."  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

F
"It's appropriate that much of Because I Said So is set in a bakery, because even in a sea of awful chick flicks, this appalling confection takes the cake."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/5
"An unfunny comedy about an interfering mother and a dysfunctional family that demeans women big time."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3/4
"The screenplay for Because I Said So may be short on invention but it is large on heart."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2/5
"A desperate comedy whose frequently acute insights into tense, but loving mother-daughter relationships is constantly hamstrung by ill-advised forays into physical humor and too much reliance on Diane Keaton's mania."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

1/4
"I don't think anyone actually wrote Because I Said So; I think that some Hollywood artificial intelligence think-tank instead fed DVD box sets of The Gilmore Girls and Sex and the City into a computer, along with Pottery Barn catalogs for roughage. ..."  Cinematical  James Rocchi

4/10
"Click here to read review"  Kinoblog.com  Jaroslav Vishtaljuk

2/10
"I spent the bulk of the running time thinking of creative ways for the characters to be murdered."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

1/5
"this film is like Kevin Federline at the guidance counselor's office - it just has no direction"  Film Threat  Kevin Carr

0.5/4
"Innocuous, self-centered and disconnected from any parcel of meaningful human experience."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

D
"Even the film's costume designer makes Keaton look ridiculous which is no mean feat given that she's clothed in the actress's own style."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Laura Clifford

C-
"Some of the nonsense could be overlooked as part of rom com conventions, but Because I Said So's shrillness makes for an exhausting experience."  Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema  Mark Pfeiffer

"[A] trite, manipulative, excruciating nightmare of female pyschosis and idiocy presented as feminine adorableness."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

D
"Are there not... Two points in the adventure of the diver: This movie manages to be offensive and yet dull and predictable, as phony as a Kate Spade sidewalk knock-off bag and as unoriginal as the ready-for VH1 soundtrack."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

1/5
"A movie that’s so bad, it's actually painful to sit through."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

1.5/5
"There's more than enough material here to make an enjoyable drama about a mother and her adult daughters. But the writers and director fail on virtually every front."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

D
"Because I Said So's biggest sin is that it treats its characters like idiots, with Keaton's Daphne leading the charge. [She's] a woman who apparently makes her living by baking the occasional cake, most of which land on the sidewalk or in her face."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

"If these are the only kinds of roles we can conceive for actresses who have grown into their faces, as Keaton has, it's no wonder so many younger performers are seeking the knife."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

3/10
"Believe me when I tell you not to see this unless you're subpoenaed. It's that bad!"  www.susangranger.com  Susan Granger

1.5/4
"Playing a ditzy control freak of a mother with serious boundary issues, Keaton comes across as such a screeching, flailing flibbertigibbet that you want to give her costars tranquilizer dart guns."  Reel.com  Timothy Knight

0/4
"It's hard to find a more stalwart movie monster in the last ten years than Keaton, who's gone from a charming neurotic to a cobwebbed, cell-phone-wielding vagina dentata."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

"Click here to see review"  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten
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