Jacquelyn Hil

I don’t think people who don’t typically watch dramas understand the true meaning of this movie. It isn’t supposed to be a wholesome “chick flick” dazzling with glamorous outfits and a standard plot line. It’s a movie about toxic family environments, addiction, gaslighting, sexual assault, manipulation and grooming. Highly underrated, raw, and riveting. Jane Fonda is such a lovable, stern and stubborn matriarch figure caring for her crazed daughter and hell raiser granddaughter (Lindsay Lohan). It demonstrates healing from severe trauma given the support of people surrounding a victim, and also shows how positive male figures can come into women’s lives and nurture them in a way that doesn’t revolve around sexual gratification but instead, father like love. I really loved this movie, and I think it has a very uplifting end message. It’s played up to be some coming of age movie, but it’s much deeper. Definitely don’t listen to harsh male critique in most of these reviews, because they clearly don’t understand the pain and damage that absent father figures and manipulative men leave on women. Not to mention, there is a LOT of symbolism throughout the whole movie if you keep your eye out!