Rotten
[Garry Marshall] piles on the cornball touches with the sledgehammer effect of a bad sitcom director.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Raising Helen
Her uptown life gets turned inside out!
2004 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Garry Marshall
Overview
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of her life!
Director and cast
- Garry Marshall Director
- Kate Hudson as Helen Harris
- John Corbett as Pastor Dan Parker
- Joan Cusack as Jenny Portman
- Hayden Panettiere as Audrey Davis
- Spencer Breslin as Henry Davis
- Abigail Breslin as Sarah Davis
- Helen Mirren as Dominique
- Felicity Huffman as Lindsay Davis
- Kevin Kilner as Ed Portman
- Sakina Jaffrey Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
25%
Tomatometer
Rotten
This ode to the most stifling aspects of family and motherhood make you feel like the hicks have all uprooted themselves and moved into the front office at Touchstone.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
Rotten
Almost nothing about Raising Helen rings very true, other than the camera's crush on Kate Hudson.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Rotten
Even those who seek the undemanding entertainment of life troubles being bravely dealt with might end up wishing they were given more than just sitcom resolutions.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Rotten
There's no real conflict, and the screenplay sometimes approaches idiocy.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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