Because I Said So

Plot synopsis:
The movie focuses on Daphne (Diane Keaton), the loving but over-bearing mother of three girls, in particular Milly (Mandy Moore). Her other daughters Maggie (Lauren Graham) and Mae (Piper Perabo) are happily married, but Milly has recently broken up with her boyfriend, and Daphne is concerned.
Daphne fears that her daughter cannot find a good man on her own, so she secretly places a personal ad for her daughter. She finds a potential candidate, Jason (Tom Everett Scott), and tries to orchestrate a chance meeting of the two. The plan seems flawless until Milly finds her own date, guitarist Johnny (Gabriel Macht), who happens to be a candidate Daphne rejected before. Milly is unaware of her mother's scheming and begins relationships with both Jason and Johnny at the same time, with neither aware of the other.
Inevitably, this double-dating takes its toll and Milly becomes estranged from both Jason and Johnny. In Jason's case, it is because she discovers Daphne's scheming. Meanwhile, Daphne stumbles upon her own perfect match after being alone for many years and begins to challenge her search for the perfect match for Milly. Milly also realizes she has a choice to be the daughter her mother wants her to be, or to be the woman she wants herself to be. Choosing the latter, which comes with a row with her mother, leads her to reconcile with Johnny, a relationship Daphne has realized she should have tried to orchestrate in the first place.

Tags: psychedelic, psychological, romantic

Review:
But it looked cute from the cover and I like Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore, so I wanted to give this movie a chance, but instead it just wasted my time and made me throw up a little in my mouth.
If you can swallow the beautiful and sexy Mandy Moore as an uncoordinated doofus with low self-esteem who can't find a decent guy to go out with her, then you may be able to get into the spirit of "Because I said So." However, you'll also have to put up with Diane Keaton in a truly grating performance as a neurotic control freak of a mother who spends most of her time obsessing over the romantic travails of her youngest daughter, going so far as to post an ad on an internet dating site seeking out prospective husbands for the unsuspecting girl.The actions of this modern-day Yenta the Matchmaker set into motion a whole host of sitcom-level complications and romantic comedy hijinks that are somehow supposed to be funny but wind up being merely irritating.
- thrown in for bad measure.Beyond Keaton and Moore, Gabriel Macht, Tom Everett Scott and Lauren Graham are just some of the other unfortunate actors trapped inside this "chick flick" fiasco..
Other than that, all we get is "Gilmore Girls" Lauren Graham as the wisest of Keaton's three daughters and Piper Perabo as one of the most nondescript characters of all time.
I say, SAVE YOUR MONEY and rent "Terms of Endearment", which may be the best movie ever about a mother and daughter's struggles to show their love for each other.
Diane Keaton is energetic and so much fun - and I promise you that by the end of the movie, she'll have (in some way or another) reminded you of your own mother.
And Mandy Moore is very good as the quirky daughter who is, in reality, very much like her mother.
Or at least because they continue to say so in all the woman's magazines at the grocery store check-out line.This one stars Diane Keaton, who has been in one too many of these over the years, Lauren Graham, who has seen better writing on her series "Gilmore Girls", Piper Perabo, whose career tends to float under the radar, and Mandy Moore, whose range is limited but whose charm seems endless.
The latter three star as sisters with a ridiculously over-involved mother (Keaton), who go through ups and downs, weddings, and such, while mom pokes her nose too deeply into Moore's love life.
I can only point a finger at the writing because as predictable as this movie is, there are some absolute gems of BRILLIANT acting from both Keaton and Moore.
I'm not sure why anyone is in this movie other than Mandy Moore and Diane Keaton because no use is made of them.
Only until a joke is shared between Millie (Moore) and her mother (Keaton) about a man's uncircumcised entity does the audience begin laughing.
Lots of romantic comedies include generous dosages of overbearing parents, predictable twists-and-turns, and decor that looks like it came out of the Ikia catalog.Nonetheless, 'Because I Said So' is, for lack of a better word, cute.
who get roped into seeing it may well enjoy the antics of Keaton's character's dog, who provides slap-sticky yet appreciated comic relief.All in all, it's not something I'd probably buy on DVD, but as a fun and easy way to spend two hours, 'Because I Said So' is worth wading through the clichés..
I say "very little good" because I can find good things to say: Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore, and heck, everyone else in the cast, are stunning to look at.
Which is about 9 more than needed.Characters: poorly written, and acted in the most grating, unlikable and unbelievable manner possible.Relationships: completely unrealistic.Dialogue: horrid.Plot: Well, in one case the mother character gets (unexplained) laryngitis, which is the only time that the other characters get to speak more than two words around her without interruption.
Time.The attempts at humor are from a teenage gross out flick: an unattractive man whines about having snot stuck in his nose; Diane Keaton carries heavy, elaborate cakes while wearing four inch spike heels; Diane Keaton drives on a highway with her head under the dashboard; Diane Keaton simulates arousal while watching an x rated internet site; a dog humps a piece of furniture; Korean women make rude comments while massaging American women; women's underwear are compared.The sets and costumes are from a never-never "romantic comedy" land: a family of young, attractive women and a series of elaborate wedding cakes.The plot is idiotic; if you've seen the trailer, you know the plot.
Diane Keaton, a mother, interferes in her daughter's love life so much that they fix her up with a man.The dialogue is flat and could not be less interesting.Women are incompetent: a young woman, Mandy Moore, wears a bright red, lacy slip under a green dress.
I'm disappointed in Diane Keaton and Tom Everett Scott - and I don't even want to talk about Mandy Moore.
Daphne Wilder (Diane Keaton) has done fine with her older two daughters (Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo) but when it comes to her youngest, the klutzy Milly (Mandy Moore), she feels she has to get more directly involved with finding her a man.
Although she has her sights set on Jason (Tom Everett Scott), a successful architect, Milly herself seems more interested in musician Johnny (Gabriel Macht), who just so happens to have a single father who is interested in Daphne.Because I Said So is an appalling comedy that completely wastes a fine cast with lame material.
The horrible things Daphne did to her daughter just went over the line many times to the point that it wasn't even funny and Mandy Moore was pretty unlikable herself so it was pretty hard to care about these people.When the film wasn't offending my intelligence, it was just boring to watch.
There was no development for some of the supporting characters and Mandy Moore wasn't engaging enough to lead the movie.The acting was shockingly bad although anybody would have problems working with this material.
Mandy Moore and the male leadswere very good, but didn't get enough screen time without competing with Keatons' over the top performance.
Wow. If you want to watch a movie that will make you want to pull out Mandy Moore's vocal cords and strangle Diane Keaton with them, then this is the movie for you.
I would totally recommend this film to mothers and daughters who like cheesy romance flicks.
Hyperactively controlling Daphne (Diane Keaton) decides to fix her youngest daughter Milly (Mandy Moore) by finding her the perfect man via an on-line dating service ad that Milly knows nothing about.
It focuses on the relationship between a mother (Diane Keaton) and a daughter (Mandy Moore) and how the mother influences her daughter to choose between two guys.
How long has Diane Keaton been so desperate for money that she signs up for tripe of the calibre of "Because I Said So." An all-white cast of girlie girls film that glorifies why some women become anorexic just so they can say no to mommy, while others are mindless malleable bimbo's whose mommy complex really needs medical intervention.
The film is more than irritating, it's mindless stupidity.Diane Keaton presents herself as what is described as "meddlesome mother" who is trying to set her youngest daughter portrayed by Mandy Moore, up with an appropriate professional man to marry.
That this movie was ever green-lighted is the biggest wonder about the film.The paper-thin plot has Keaton portray Daphne Wilder, the single mother of three grown daughters.
Mandy Moore is an appealing presence as the clumsy, endearing Milly, although she is overloaded with enough cutesy idiosyncrasies to make Keaton's own Annie Hall look relatively unaffected.As Jason, Tom Everett Scott seems to play the same role over and over, the superficial yuppie who does not fare well upon closer inspection.
I'm sure they had fun and got their money but this movie is a dark spot on their way, and they can't erase it and i'll never forget i sat it through ;-) ...I would have thought a few of the actors had just a little more pride than this but how wrong was i.What a total miserable bummer :-(.
I won't hesitate to say that Ms. Keaton ruined this film with her over-the-top performance.Unless you want to be reminded for an hour and a half about why you could ever possibly hate your mother, or you are an overprotective, controlling mom yourself, the only joy that can be derived from this film comes from Mandy Moore and the rest of the supporting cast.Too bad this film isn't really about Moore's character at all..
I liked the Mandy Moore character and her sisters, (just to look at I suppose - also the fact that their mother exasperated them but they wouldn't hurt her feelings for worlds) but the architect was badly miscast.
Jokes you knew were coming.It had it all...The mother seemed to say the same things over and over, it's not like the script was too short...This bomb seemed to go on for ever.The things the characters did were so faulty, you couldn't imagine anyone being so...think of a few synonyms for stupid.I felt like Id already seen it before, its basically your classic plot, someone (in this the daughter's mother) interferes with her love life with "halarious" results.
Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore worked some real magic in this movie....it's no wonder the crowd I saw it with responded so warmly to it.
Director Michael Lehmann started perfectly with the excellent film Heathers.But,after that promising first work,he made big craps like Hudson Hawk,Airheads and 40 Days and 40 Nights.But,Because I Said So is not only the worst movie of his career but also an enormous crap which bores and is totally unfunny.This "film" is so execrable that I wanted to take my eyes out while I was watching it.Diane Keaton is totally wasted on this film and I think that the only reason she participated here was because she needed some money.Because I Said So is a pathetic and crappy ''comedy'' that I really hate.I want the money I wasted on this crap back!Certainly,the second worst film of 2007(for the moment,the worst one is License to Wed)..
The acting by Diane Keaton makes you wonder if she had been doing drugs and the rest of a reasonably good cast, except for the not so cute kid, is totally wasted by a bad, no horrible, script and really poor directing.
Daphne (Diane Keaton) is the mother of three beautiful daughters, who she largely raised herself.
This is really Keaton's film, in many ways, and she delights the audience with a very comic turn as the overbearing mother who, nevertheless, truly wants the best for her children.
But, for the vast majority of the movie, this is a wonderful look at the strong bond between mothers and their daughters and the irrepressible hope we all have to find love and find it true.
In "Because I Said So" Diane Keaton plays an overprotective mother, Daphne, to Millie (Mandy Moore).
The main problem with this movie is that Keaton plays the overprotective mother very over the top, and it's just not that funny.The sisters all have their own charm, although Perabo is underused.
Halfway through this movie, I was thinking 'I wish Mandy Moore's character would come down with a case of terminal Cancer or catch genital warts or some other STD preferably AIDS from one of the squeaky clean 'Hi There!' guys she's going out with.' Or I was actually hoping somebody's head would just blow up and their brain matter would splat all across the wall in front of Diane Keaton so she could scream even louder.
A good concept for a chick flick mother-daughter movie, I couldn't believe that Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo were going to be in the same movie.
Hmmm I wonder what will happen to the cake in Diane Keaton's hands with a little boy running around her...hmmm.....Apparently 60-year-old women bumping into porn sites, dogs humping chairs, little kids saying the words "penis" and "vagina", and a balloon stuck to Mandy Moore's rear end is considered "good comedy."I also found "Because I Said So" to be very offensive to all women.
Daphne Wilder (Keaton), a hovering mom, sets up her daughter Millie (Moore) with a blind date in the hopes Millie will marry.I wasn't going to watch this all the way thru.
Given the fact that I like Diane Keaton, don't mind Mandy Moore and I also like lighthearted chick flicks this says a lot.
So her mother Diane Keaton decides to put matter into her own hands and sets up a dating scheme so that she can find eligible bachelors for her daughter to fall in love with.
Diane Keaton wants her daughters to do things "Because I Said So" in this 2007 movie.Keaton is a neurotic mother who is constantly poking her nose into her daughters' lives.
Yeah, that certainly is a way to find a life partner for your daughter - advertise and then screen them for her.One of the problems for me in this movie was Diane Keaton's performance.
Such a fine actress as Diane Keaton should be ashamed of performing is such a puerile film as "Because I Said So".
Diane Keaton plays an over-protective, overly-controlling but loving mother.
Both, Keaton and Moore, do a wonderful job of portraying a mother and daughter who share so many interests and idiosyncrasies that it is very believable.
Perhaps if she had been cast as the central character in this movie she could have been its saving grace, but instead this vibrant and lively young actress was relegated to the background in favor of -- wait, why is Mandy Moore famous in the first place?
Me and my mom went to go see this movie together for a mother-daughter night and we had a great time!
"Because I Said So" really made me think about my relationship with my mom, and that the love a mother feels for her daughter really is incredible.
The little comments or the way Diane Keaton tried to make Mandy Moore's character just like her were so much like most moms (my mom especially) that it was hilarious.
I don't usually watch movies with Diane Keaton, or Mandy Moore - but I work part time at Blockbuster and for some reason this was the only reasonable "prestreet" to take home and watch this week.
Diane Keaton plays well, Mandy Moore plays well, Piper Perabo has a really tiny role, the plot is really easy to follow, even for brain dead people, the emotions are all artificial, the humour is forced, the script is made by a recipe, girls dig it, just a little, men sit through it wishing they were either banging Mandy or dead.It's not that it is a bad film, it's just impossibly average.
It is a cute film about mothers and daughters and growing up and growing apart and love.Yes, Diane Keaton's performance was clearly over the top, but that was kind of the whole point of the film...If you enjoy cute films, that make you laugh out loud and warm your heart, you will enjoy this movie.We had to sit in the front row of the theater because it was so packed..but we could hear everyone from our row to the back laughing..
Even as a guy I found this movie entertaining.(and I'm not just saying that because they show a skin-clad Mandy Moore.) The character "Johnny" was heartfelt, and intricate.
While I love Diane Keaton, her character is so over the top in her daughter's lives that it's cringe worthy.
I definitely would've like to see Mandy Moore take a different approach to her character, as at times her acting can get whiny.
I'm a humongous Diane Keaton, so that's really why I watched this movie late one night on TV, I was hoping it would be a great one like almost all Diane's films.
Diane and Mandy Moore actually had good chemistry, and their acting wasn't bad, but they just had very poor material to work with, it's really not the actor's fault, it's the writers fault.
I love how the movie ends and I think there is value in seeing how the two men differ and who she chooses in the end.The mother has her own issues that get ironed out during the film.
funniest movie I've seen in a long time..its more of a comedy than a romance story or a touching mother-daughter film, but it has it all.
You find yourself cheering for Johnny so badly when it looks like Milly will hook up with Jason just because her mother wants her to.I thought this would be a total chick flick but there were men in the theater while I was there laughing just as loud as the women were.
Diane Keaton was very funny and Mandy Moore's talents are just amazing.
Plus, Diane Keaton is such a great actress and made the movie awesome!I usually don't go for romantic comedies but now I think I change my mind because this was so....well...romantically funny!
For instance, when Daphne (Diane Keaton) loses her voice and is writing messages out to her daughter (Mandy Moore)and asks her what an orgasm feels like.
Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, and Piper Perabo - you cannot get better than that!
All of the ladies of this film are excellent actors and I think Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore really make you believe they are mother and daughter.
Mandy Moore Was Great In This Movie Her Acting Was So Good And I Did Not Know She Was That Good Of A Actor She Proved Me Wrong.