Anywhere But Here (1999)

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Studio: Fox 2000
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Nov 12, 1999
Running Time: 114 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Wayne Wang
synopsis
It is mid-summer 1995 as a 1978 Mercedes zooms down the highway, heading west. Inside sit 14-year-old Ann August and her mother Adele. Against her will, Ann is being moved to Beverly Hills where Adele, stifled by small-town life in Bay City, Wisconsin hopes to make her colorful dreams come true. Ann is furious at having to leave the life she loves. Adele is tired of defending herself against her daughter's longings for home and family, and feels she's taking Ann away from a lifeless future and offering her a new exciting world. Their first stop in L.A. is the Beverly Hills Hotel, the symbol of Adele's quest; then they head off to what will become of their real life--meals at diners and a very ordinary one-bedroom apartment in the flats of Beverly Hills. For two years, Ann and Adele adjust to the reality of life in L.A. Their relationship is close, but always volatile. Adele, an "outsider" and Ann, a "realist" flip-flop the terms of their mother-daughter relationship in their journey of discovery.
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No holiday season is complete without Susan Sarandon doing the mother bit. In "Anywhere But Here," she's wacky mom Adele August, and the part affords much gabby outlet for her flirty comic gifts.

Natalie Portman has her innate, manic charm as the other half of this dysfunctional pair, daughter Ann. However, this too-pat film is merely a repetitive series of scenes of bickering between them, culminating in tearful cuddles.

Alvin Sargent's script does little to improve on Mona Simpson's… Continued

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December 8, 2000
A comedy-drama about a mother and daughter who leave Wisconsin for a 90210 zip code is well acted but wobbly


Her underwritten role and over-elaborate makeup as Queen Amidala in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace hid the talent and beauty of Natalie Portman. Now, as Ann August -- a teenager trying to stabilize her divorced, wildcat mom, Adele (Susan Sarandon) -- Portman, 18, brings her light out from under George Lucas' bushel. She is smart, funny, luminous and rigorously unsentimental.


Would that the… Continued

cast + crew
Director
Adele August
Ann August
Lillian
Ted
Jimmy
Benny
Hisham
of Hisham
Ann--Age 4
screenplay
Source Material (from novel)
Screenplay
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Executive Producer
Associate Producer

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