Synopsis
Halley is convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her crazed sister is planning a wedding but has second thoughts and her best friend has fallen madly in love for the first time leaving Halley to feel even more alone.
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Cast
- Mandy MooreHalley Martin
- Trent FordMacon Forrester
- Allison JanneyLydia Martin
- Alexandra HoldenScarlett Smith
- Dylan BakerSteve Beckwith
- Nina FochGrandma Halley
- Mary Catherine GarrisonAshley Martin
- Connie RayMarion Smith
- Mackenzie AstinLewis Warsher
- Charlotte SullivanElizabeth Gunderson
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
Moore makes Halley's awakening organic and touching. In an age when most teenagers are up to their eyeballs in postmodern consumer glitz, her movies seem radical not just in their retro squareness but in their unfashionable embrace of faith over ironic flippancy. - 75
Chicago Tribune
This is a movie whose title promises to show teenage viewers how to cope with the messed-up, grown-up world they are entering, not how to make it perfect -- or even how to make sense of it. - 75
Baltimore Sun
There's pleasure to be had in a film that suggests teen life can be hard without necessarily being tragic. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Works up some genuine emotion offset by occasional humor and creates individuals of a certain degree of complexity, but the film is glazed over with an aura of artificiality. - 50
Dallas Observer
Competently if unremarkably directed by Englishwoman Clare Kilner, should prove compelling enough to Moore's huge legion of fans. - 50
New York Post
The sad truth is that TV series like "Dawson's Creek" do a better job with precocious teen dialogue. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Director Claire Kilner and screenwriter Neena Beber don't walk the tightrope between comedy and drama skillfully enough to make either aspect work as well as it should. - 50
Rolling Stone
The pop diva goes down with the bubbles in this hopelessly shallow soap opera.
