Synopsis
An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way, but whatever salvation they find is illusory and short-lived.
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Cast
- Catherine KeenerMichelle Marks
- Brenda BlethynJane Marks
- Emily MortimerElizabebeth Marks
- Raven GoodwinAnnie Marks
- Aunjanue Ellis-TaylorLorraine
- Clark GreggBill
- Jake GyllenhaalJordan
- James Le GrosPaul
- Michael NouriDr. Crane
- Dermot MulroneyKevin McCabe
Recommendations
- 90
The A.V. Club
Emerges as something rare, an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one. It earns its thesis statement through minute details and a unique grasp of a commonplace problem. - 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Lord knows how Holofcener got the performance she did out of Goodwin, but the child actor's Annie, rude and unmanageable, is an extraordinarily rich and complicated figure. - 80
Wall Street Journal
Lovely & Amazing goes to the heart -- and face, and skin -- of a subject that's sure to ring true with women, and may even educate men. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
This trio is like a looser, funnier version of the family of wrecks in Woody Allen's ''Interiors.'' - 75
ReelViews
It is at times serious and at times very funny. But it is always perceptive, and that quality, more than any other, is what makes it worth a recommendation. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is a fine, funny, humane film. - 75
New York Daily News
By turns cheerful, funny and melancholy, and at all times honest, Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing stands out in the current run of ensemble women's films. - 70
Time
This feels the way a lot of us are living now -- on desperation's dull yet still cutting edge.
