[Zerahsedai]

Does anyone else think that the premise of this movie is rediculous? For those who are blessed with ignorance, the main character unknowinly inherits her sisters' children or some such crap. Hilarty ensues.

The main point being: she was unaware of this arrangement until the moment of the will reading or whatever. Come on, people. I'd think that in Real Life™, the benefactor would have prior knowlegde or this sort of arrangement, for the sake of the children. Yeah, I'm going to leave my kids to someone who is totally unprepared in every feasible way...

If anyone has knowledge of the whole "inheritance" system and can refute me, please do! Otherwise, I'll just chalk another up to Hollywood Thinks I am Stupid.

peace out.

[Laura]

Here's how the movie will play out. Someone has to go see it & tell me if I'm right.

First 10 minutes: We get a bunch of scenes of Helen's life, designed to show her as a playful go-getter with a high fashion, low responsibility lifestyle.

10-20 minute marks: Premise is set up, will is read, Helen & sister argue with the executor. Somehow, they decide to honor the dead sister's memory or something, even though clearly the kids should be with the responsible sister. Probably they agree that it's probationary.

20-30 minute marks: A rocky start with the kids, & Helen counts the days until her probationary period is over.

30-60: The kids' wacky antics in Helen's life begin to draw her closer rather than annoying her; they bond; hijinks ensue; her "non-traditional" parenting style charms the kids while she grows more responsible day by day.

60-70: Just as the probationary period draws to a close and Helen considers keeping the kids, something terrible happens; they wreck her life in some way, probably threatening her high-profile job in the fashion industry. Helen gets really mad, they all have a falling out, and both parties decide to part ways. The kids go with the responsible sister.

70-85: Kids are sad with responsible sister and miss Helen. Helen is sad without the kids and miss them. Movie shows both of them getting on with their lives, however, resigned to a life apart. Helen smooths things over and continues her job.

85-90: Another catalystic event happens, possibly Helen quitting her job and/or getting engaged with her boyfriend or something like that, causing Helen to decide she really wants to kids back. The kids are thrilled, & the responsible sister gives them up readily because that's what they really want and probably she is pregnant anyway.

THE END.

[Vwing]

I (unfortunately) saw this movie. Laura, you're exceedingly close. But you see, you can't begin to capture the horrible piece of crap that this movie is. This is the worst movie I've ever seen. Every goddamn cliche is there. I didn't laugh ONE GODDAMN TIME. Oh, not to mention they throw in John Corbett as a love interest, who plays, get this, "Pastor Dan". He's a pastor at a private school in Queens, where Helen is forced to move after the kids cause her to get fired from her job. She winds up with him. Oh but let's not forget the scene in the middle where he takes her to an interreligion hockey game, and after the Jews (and I mean religious jews, with the beards and everything) score a goal, they dance around while Jewish music plays in the background. Oh, not to mention that the conclusion isn't even what it should have been! The title's raising helen, and even after all of this purile crap, we at least expected the ending, which I stayed for just because I needed to say how the train wreck finished (where the responsible sister shows Helen why her sister wanted Helen to have the kids in the first place) to be, you know, LOGICAL. But that too can't even be the least bit creative, as it shows us what we already knew in the first place.

However, these words still cannot describe the hate I have for this movie. Basically, if there was a screenwriting class for how to write a bad, cliched comedy, this would be the perfect example.