The Mop Film was a Flop

Rating: 2/10 (7 February 2016)

Where do I start when the best things about the film were a short audio clip of the Buffalo Springfield song, "Expecting to Fly" and Susan Lucci playing a soap opera character (thus the 2-star rating)? I found the dialogue to be filled with clichés, the acting quite flat (especially Jennifer), and many of the scenes so implausible that I could not "buy into" the storyline. The film dragged...Bradley Cooper was underused...the hairstyles seemed out-of-sync for the time...the daughter uttered lines and behaved in a way that even a mature little girl would never say/do...the relationship with the half sister was confusing...and why did the mother always have a bowl in her hands? Also, seriously: who in their RIGHT MIND hand-wrings a mop that is filled with shards of glass? Girl, get a towel, scoop up the shards, and shake them out over the trash can!
Bottom line: An uplifting and perhaps compelling true story does not always translate into a good film.