Georgia Rule (2007)***

Seen on 14-8-2009 - Zee Stud.movie
Cast: Lindsay Lohan (Rachel), Felicity Huffman (Lilly), Jane Fonda (Georgia)
Dir.: Garry Marshall (of "Keeping with Steins" fame--in which he acted as grandpa. He is
a writer, actor as well as a producer)

"Fed up with the antics of her unruly daughter, Rachel (Lindsay Lohan), exasperated Lilly (Felicity Huffman) takes her to Idaho to live with her flinty, no-nonsense grandmother, Georgia (Jane Fonda). The two lock horns at first, but the angry Rachel starts to mellow as she gradually connects with Georgia. Also starring Dermot Mulroney and Laurie Metcalf, director Garry Marshall's redemptive tale explores themes of forgiveness and family ties."---A Netflix summary

My comment:
Bonds win over although there are radical personality differences and clashes between the three women. Rachel the daughter who was to go to Vassar is frustrated further with the ways of his alcoholic mother. Basically she is a free spirit and is very impish. The bohemian Californian girl looks totally misplaced in the conservative Mormon Idaho; the film clearly shows this contrast. Also, beneath all that waywardliness, she is refined and well educated (remember the scene where a quiz is in progress on tv, she casually traces the quoted lines from Poe's "Raven"). We liked the conception of all the three women--stubbornly individualistic yet caring. In the end, together they overcome the problem that has shadowed them--the molestation of Rachel by her stepfather! Rachel may have seduced the older men but that seems to be in a way to test their moral rootedness. Her mother's former boyfriend Simon passes the test while the stepfather doesn't (and ends losing his wife.)