Stepmom (1998)

This movie has everything a chick flick needs to have. Two women who don’t get along who eventually bond. A woman who is terminally ill. A preteen who cries a lot. Ed Harris. Guess how it ends? The two women eventually bond…and there’s a lot of crying. The preteen warms up to the stepmom…with a lot of crying, and a lot of singing and dancing to songs. Awww. All chick flicking aside, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, and especially Jena Malone give good performances. However it’s not enough to overcome a lagging plot and the fact that…yeah it’s a chick flick.

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