It makes me gay but I liked the movie

Rating: 8/10 (1 July 2006)

Okay, so my wife drug me to this movie, and I thought I would hate it. But since I drag her to all sorts of small indie flick round Oscar time, I owed her. I was really pretty good. Good acting, mostly from Streep, who really doesn't have much to do in this movie, but she gets a scene to nail it and she really does. Certainly capably directed. I expected run of the mill chick flick direction without vision and was surprised. Heck, a couple of scenes were really accomplished. One made the audience gasp, all with a subtle and important shot that summed up the scene. Wouldn't surprise me a bit to see Streep get a supporting actress nod for this, and if the movie does really well, she might win. Hathway might get a Actress nomination, but the movie would have to do pretty well and it would have to be a weak year.