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 Powerhouse actresses Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo serve up the laughs when they join wickedly funny director Michael Lehmann (The Truth About Cats & Dogs, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Heathers) in his new film about cutting the apron strings, Because I Said So.
Keaton stars as Daphne Wilder, a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie (Graham), sexy and irreverent Mae (Perabo) and insecure, adorable Milly (Moore) -- who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper.
In order to prevent her youngest from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. Little does Milly know, however, that her mom placed an ad in the online personals to find him. Comic mayhem unfolds as Daphne continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons... all in the name of love.
In a hilarious battle of strong wills, the mother-daughter dynamic is tested in all its fierce, wacky complexity. The girls help Daphne finally discover the truths and impossibilities of motherly love, all while trying to answer the questions: where does it begin and where should it end?
Joining Lehmann behind the scenes on Because I Said So are scribes Karen Leigh Hopkins (Stepmom) and Jessie Nelson (I Am Sam). Paul Brooks (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) produces the film with Nelson.
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from Universal Pictures
Directed by
Michael Lehmann
Starring
Diane Keaton (Daphne)
Mandy Moore (Milly)
Gabriel Macht (Johnny)
Tom Everett Scott (Jason)
Lauren Graham (Maggie)
Piper Perabo (Mae)
Stephen Collins (Joe)
Ty Panitz (Lionel)
Matt Champagne (Eli)
Colin Ferguson (Derek)
Tony Hale (Stuart)
Sophina Brown (Milly's Staff #1/Matisse)
Karen Leigh Hopkins (Milly's Staff #2/Charlie)
Gerald Downey (Cousin Dougy's Friend)
Ingrid Sanai Buron (Singing Bride)
Satya Lee (Daphne's Masseuse)
Alexis Rhee (Maggie's Masseuse)
Shu Lan Tuan (Milly's Masseuse)
Steve Little (Bad Teeth Guy)
John Ross Bowie (Cute Food Spewing Guy)
Parvesh Cheena (Foreign Guy)
Doug Budin (Sneezer)
Willam Belli (Transsexual)
Carlo Michael Mancini (Arnold)
Mary Pat Gleason (Iris)
Judi Barton (Jason's Mother)
Rudolph Willrich (Jason's Fatther)
David Purdham (Uncle Philip)
P.J. Byrne (Photographer)
Edith Jefferson (Female Senior)
Holly Westen (Catering Staff)
Nate Petre (Bleached Teeth Guy)
Allison Caetano (Roller Blader)
Chris Monberg (Roller Blader)
Garett Maggart (Contractor/Carpenter)
Written by
Karen Leigh Hopkins
Jessie Nelson
Rated: 
(for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity) |
Because I Said So (DVD)
Because I Said So [CD]
Original Soundtrack
Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves
by Kate Moses, Camille Peri
Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother
by Shari Thurer
Daughters and Mothers: Making It Work
by Julie Firman, Dorothy Firman
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