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First things first: Viola Davis is great here.
This is a melodramatic 2-steps-away-from-a-sunday-tv-movie film that takes an interesting topic and squeezes every last drop of emotion from it and then pours some more and happens to forget what was it all about. It gets the first wet-eyes moment in five minutes and strives to keep the moisture level up two hours straight. That objective they get for sure but they also let a could-be-a-great-movie slip between their fingers meanwhile. Its a women picture in the worst sense of its usage. Its about 60s white housewifes and ment for modern days white housewifes who just want to cry a while and feel well afterwards.
Also, Viola Davis is great here.
Everything I have said before isn´t a problem in itself, its a problem with my own expectations (my fault). What I´m going to say now IS a problem in itself. This movie tries to tell us too many stories and not all of them are that interesting or have talented actresses involved or are even narrated correctly. It feels too long, too crowded and too, yes too, catartic. The catarsis never seems to end. If you are the kind of person who always keeps crying fifteen minutes after the movie is finished, you are not going to be disappointed: this movie was conceived with you in mind!
This could had been a women picture in the best sense that there is but its just a decent, well marketed to the mad men women fans, absolutely politically correct, nice, way too long movie.
Also, Viola Davis is great here.
She really, really is.
She is the only one who brings some magic.
