Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

It's supposed to be cute, but I found it grating at times, embarrassing at others. And why am I being asked to sympathize with the mother? She's an awful drunk and a child abuser. Am I supposed to root for her as she mends her relationship with her estranged daughter? (Note: This is not a movie for women, as some will claim. This is not a movie fit for humans, regardless of their biology. Bad is bad, be it a matter of films or taste, and pinning it on a gender difference is misguided.)

While this is nowhere near as profound as it thinks it is, it's still fun, and the acting or script might not be quite adequate material for the acting talent involved, it's perfectly reasonable, and should leave all but the most miserable among us with a nice, fluffy feeling, and, I ask you, what's wrong with that?

3 for Ellen Burstyn and the fact that she was good in Requiem for a Dream

Very good acting, in a mediocre story. Pretty good.

secrets of yawn-yawn...me so sleepy

An great ensemble piece. Really well-cast and acted.

I loved this book, but the movie adaptation is just shrill and unbearable.

'37pact+roofietolakehouselol-flashbackmadepretenddrowntoplayoff+stuckupforslave+gmathoughtmomdidgpaforringlol+truelovediedinwar-dadknewhewas2nd/whytreatedbad+theni'llkickyourassonthursdaylmao+momfreakedattheirdiarrheavomiting-dippedcuzstress+back-quitdrinking-stressed/badpills/crazy+feltguiltysostayedsistant+wouldntrideplanesomomdid-criedathomewantedto-takesback+initiatedlol

It was an ELEPHANT. Not an AIRPLANE. An ELEPHANT. Don't ruin the book with your little reinterpretation. Geez.

Not nearly a good as it ought to have been with all this talent.

Girl movie, not so bad but what the hell happend with other 2 kids? They appear in the movie just to be beaten....

"Khouri has no real patience for the history and origins of the Ya-Ya sisterhood." - Ed Gonzalez

bad movie

Worst movie of year 2002. Who wants to watch hysterical women almost two hours a row? Actors performances were ok, everything else not.

Accurate adaptation of the book. Good chic movie

On a par with Driving Miss Daisy and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

Girly

only like it this much because I so loved the book