A multigenerational dramatic comedy about a fractured family, Garry Marshall's GEORGIA RULE proves to be more prone to malfunction than dysfunction. Despite its three solid leads - Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and Lindsay Lohan (...) - the film fails to make a connection to its audience, or itself for that matter, as it constantly struggles to find a suitable tone.

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Even in the age of kicked-up tabloid voyeurism, there is generally a firewall between the way a star behaves on screen and off. Take Lindsay Lohan, who is all perky, freckled sunshine in her movies, all wild-child hellion in the tabs. The firewall comes down, though, in GEORGIA RULE, a clunky family-therapy soaper, written by Mark Andrus and directed by Garry Marshall, that has the bad taste - or, maybe, the good commercial sense - to exploit Lohan's public image as a girl who just can't help it.

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No offense to either of them, but GEORGIA RULE suggests an Ingmar Bergman script as directed by Jerry Lewis. The subject matter is grim, the relationships are gnarled, the worldview is bleak, and, at any given moment, you suspect someone’s going to be hit with a pie. (...) Fonda (...) is hard to watch, her apparent discomfort as a performer inseparable from Georgia’s discomfort with motherhood, grand or otherwise.

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