| | | "She's Just Your Normal Overprotective, Overbearing, Over-the-Top Mother."
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Spanish, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton stars with Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo in this heartwarming comedy about mothers, daughters and cutting the apron strings. When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne (Keaton) is just your normal overprotective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie (Moore), will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all the wrong things for all the right reasons...and all in the name of motherly love.
"...Moore gives a terrifically appealing performance..." Adam Nayman, Eye Weekly
"Lots of heart and plenty of laughs." Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
"...Lauren Graham brings a welcome deadpan sensibility..." Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 2, 2007Filmmaker Michael Lehmann (HEATHERS) makes a welcome return to the director's chair with the genial comedy BECAUSE I SAID SO. Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore star as a mother and daughter, with the former desperate to find the right man for the latter to ensure she doesn't make the same mistakes her mother did.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Featurettes: The Making Of Because I Said So, & Designing A Wilder World | | Interactive Menus | | iVillage Ad. | | Music Video: World Spins Madly On By The Weepies | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Because I Said So - DVD By: Chris Beaumont - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 5/17/2007 7:49 AM | | When I saw this in the theater, one word came to mind -- delightful. Yes, that is the perfect word to describe Because I Said So. It is a light film that has a couple of poignant "real" moments adrift in the sea of a formulaic "chick flick." This is a movie that exists in that Hollywood-created fantasy of the romantic comedy. It is a land where people who should not, and would not, have these problems in the real world have the problems that probably exist in one form or another in the lives of many of their real world counterparts.
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 1/27/2009 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 61032270 | | UPC: 00025193227027 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"[Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore] are touching and amusing to watch." 02/02/2007 p.E1ReelViews 8 of 10
Because I Said So is a made-to-order romantic comedy of the type "B" variety (that's the one where the heroine is torn between the socially and financially "ideal" guy and the one who really makes her happy). As I have previously written, a formulaic approach is not always a bad thing in a romantic comedy provided the screenplay shows moderate intelligence, the characters are appealing, and there's chemistry between the leads. Fortunately, Because I Said So satisfies these criteria. So, despite being rooted firmly in "chick flick" territory (with a high "cuteness" index), it has the capacity to please to viewers of both genders who appreciate the genre...It's a testimony to Keaton's appeal that audiences accept her in this role and, while the part isn't as fully developed as in Something's Gotta Give, her presence enriches the proceedings. - James Berardinelli
Reel.com 6 of 10
Unless she's reined in by a strong director, Diane Keaton will often indulge in her most exasperating mannerisms--the nervous tics and flaky, off-kilter delivery that have been the Oscar winner's cinematic stock-in-trade since her Seventies-era films with Woody Allen. But whereas Allen knew how to exploit Keaton's quirky, neurotic persona to endearing effect in Annie Hall (1977), Michael Lehmann basically allows her to run amuck in the treacly date movie Because I Said So. Playing a ditzy control freak of a mother with serious boundary issues, Keaton comes across as such a screeching, flailing flibbertigibbet that you want to give her costars tranquilizer dart guns...Although Because I Said So represents a misfire for Keaton, she'll hopefully rebound in a role better suited to her idiosyncratic gifts. - Tim Knight
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