Reviewing the Film "Georgia Rule"

Although I had vowed never to watch any movie in which Lindsay Lohan starred, I really couldn't resist renting the recently released "Georgia Rule." I'm a huge fan of Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda. I also like Dermont Mulroney a lot, so I decided to try and pretend that Lindsay wasn't in the film and simply enjoy some of my favorite stars. The problem is that Lindsay was down right impossible to ignore.

Although I'm convinced that what you see on screen isn't Lindsay acting, but an honest portrayal of the actress herself, it doesn't make her performance any less compelling. What is does do, however, is make me even angrier that she seems to be set upon harpooning her career and depriving the world of a real talent.

Lindsay plays Rachel Wilcox, daughter of self-proclaimed boozer Lilly (Felicity Huffman) and granddaughter of strait laced Georgia (Jane Fonda).

As the movie opens, Rachel is on her way to Idaho to spend the summer with her grandmother; a punishment her mother has established because she just can no longer handle her wayward wild child. Rachel, of course, could care less. She hates the world and everyone in it; or so she thinks.

On the road, Lindsay demands that her mother let her out so that she can walk the rest of the way. Of course, she doesn't do that. Instead she hitches a ride from a stranger - - Dr. Simon Ward (Dermont Mulroney) - - ho just happens to be headed to her grandmother's hometown.

In the meantime, Lilly drives on ahead to tell her mother what is going on with Rachel. The meeting is totally uncomfortable as it appears that mother and daughter can't stand one another and don't intend to make any effort to recitify the act.

The story is about family and relationships; how they break up and come back together through circumstances that are often out of their control. It's also about how people don't grow up all at once, but often in spurts that make it difficult for others to understand or comprehend.