Daphne Wilder is the proud mother of three women: Milly, Maggie and Mae, and her love for her offspring knows no bounds. Daphne decides to set Milly up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.
15 February 1998, Oak Park, California, USA
1 October 1947, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
24 May 1969, Darien, Connecticut, USA
22 January 1972, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
7 September 1970, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
30 May 1971, New York City, New York, USA
19 July 1969, San Francisco, California, USA
2 May 1946, USA
5 January 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
6 January 1969, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
15 December 1974, Maplewood, New Jersey, USA
24 November 1973, Carol Stream, Illinois, USA
20 April 1953, Whittier, California, USA
December 09, 2014
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.
February 06, 2007
If you don't expect too much of it, you may find yourself pleasantly -- all right, soothingly -- surprised by it.
February 03, 2007
Recycling every cliche in the rom-com handbook, it's clear from the very first that Lehmann has sacrificed his characters on the altar of sappy endings. What a waste -- for everybody.
February 20, 2007
I hated this movie. I think it's the worst performance of Diane Keaton's career.
February 02, 2007
As almost everyone knows by now, the early part of the year has become a dumping ground for dreadful movies. Still, Because I Said So constitutes unusually toxic waste.
April 23, 2009
The ensuing cycle of miscommunication is endless and trying.
February 02, 2009
There are chick flicks and upchuck flicks. The movie Because I Said So is an upchuck chick flick.
August 28, 2009
Like steel pins poking through the eyes
January 07, 2011
Because I Said So seems like it's supposed to be a paean of sorts to motherhood and the enduring love that entails, a love so strong that it inevitably drives its possessor somewhat batty. But what it is, is muddled crap.
November 20, 2008
This is a by-the-book chick flick we're talking about, but the writers and director apparently didn't want to push the envelope when it came to the supporting characters -- or the main characters.
February 10, 2007
Everyone here is a caricature, and the gaps are papered over with hyperactive shtick. I haven't seen so many cakes dropped or smashed since I Love Lucy.
February 02, 2007
It's so derivative, unfunny and thuddingly bad that it's one of the more cringe-inducing movies of a genre chock-full of clunkers.
