Georgia Rule reminds as to why Lohan, unlike some of Hollywood's other troublemakers of the late noughties, has been missed.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 11, 2022

The actors are sabotaged by Marshall and screenwriter Mark Andrus, who make the fatal decision of trying to water down its grim story with forced comedy.

| Nov 21, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Oh Lindsay Lohan, where has your talent gone?

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 23, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A film that's an utterly horrid exploitation of [star Lindsay] Lohan...

| Apr 14, 2008

The kind of film your parents will cite as the reason they don't go to movies anymore.

| Original Score: D | Jan 2, 2008

The confused script trades in such heavy topics as alcoholism and child sexual abuse, but every dramatic scene plays like one of those schmaltzy Happy Days moments that inevitably drew a big 'Awwwwww!' from the studio audience.

| Dec 3, 2007

Lohan acts out in muddled mother-daughter comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2007

A fluffy comedy about a young woman who was repeatedly raped by her stepfather.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 14, 2007

Rarely awful, Garry Marshall's films consistently exhibit a veneer of banality, and Georgia Rule is no exception.

Full Review | Original Score: 63/100 | Sep 9, 2007

Molestation, alcoholism and the other problems this dysfunctional family experience would be better dealt with truthfully, rather than with these stereotypical characters.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2007

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| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2007

Since when did sexual abuse find its way into a comedy?I guess when it's part of a screenplay written by Mark Andrus and directed by Garry Marshall ("Pretty Woman").

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Jun 10, 2007

Careless and predictable, Georgia Rule offers up the abuse victim's "sexy" acting out as alternately beguiling and blameworthy.

Full Review | May 30, 2007

[An] unruly, often bracing misfire.

| May 23, 2007

The subject matter in Georgia Rule--sexual abuse and alcoholism, for starters--lends itself to drama, but Garry Marshall's tone deaf direction and Mark Andrus' sloppy script play it as comedy.

| Original Score: D- | May 22, 2007

The only people who would be attracted to actually watching this film aren't going to be able to watch it anyway.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2007

A family drama that flies all over the place and does not do justice to the serious ethical issues it raises.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 17, 2007

...it's ultimately difficult not to be drawn into the soap opera-ish exploits of the central characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 17, 2007