Fresh
Something to Talk About is at its best when Khouri's juicy script is adroitly mixing comedy and pathos.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Something to Talk About
A story about husbands, wives, parents, children and other natural disasters.
1995 · 1h 46m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Lasse Hallström
Overview
Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone.
Director and cast
- Lasse Hallström Director
- Julia Roberts as Grace King Bichon
- Dennis Quaid as Eddie Bichon
- Robert Duvall as Wyly King
- Gena Rowlands as Georgia King
- Kyra Sedgwick as Emma Rae King
- Brett Cullen as Jamie Johnson
- Haley Aull as Caroline 'Doodlebug' Bichon
- Muse Watson as Hank Corrigan
- Anne Shropshire as Aunt Rae
- Ginnie Randall as Eula
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
Rotten
In [Khouri's] zeal to portray a world full of male scum, she creates a morally mismatched, pandering scenario.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Rotten
Everything about Something to Talk About feels off by a few beats.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Rotten
Something to Talk About never goes bad, though it does get corny in places, and it hits a couple of dull patches near the finish.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Something to Talk About is the kind of movie where you start out wondering how all of these people are related, and end up knowing all too well.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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