Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
Three of Hollywood's most beautiful and talented actresses, Ryan, Keaton, and Kudrow, are totally wasted in this shamelessly sappy meller that bears the schmaltzy sensibility of Nora Ephorn, its inept producer and co-scripter even though Keaton is helmer
– Emanuel Levy,
Variety,
7 Aug 2006
rotten:
Too phony to be anything truly heartfelt.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Like people who compulsively giggle whenever they tell you bad news, the movie runs for cover in lame, comic shtick.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Ten minutes into it, you're making low moans. Fifteen minutes into it, you have plucked out all of your hair. Gone! You're bald, you're unhappy, and the movie's only just begun.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The script flips from hack sentimentality to sitcom shtick with predictable rhythms.