Lovely & Amazing

A finely observed comedy, “Lovely & Amazing” is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way, but whatever salvation they find is illusory and short-lived.

The Marks family is a tightly-knit quartet of women. Jane (Brenda Blethyn) is the affluent matriarch whose 3 daughters seem to have nothing in common except for a peculiar sort of idealism. Setting the tone of vanity and insecurity, Jane is undergoing cosmetic surgery to alter her figure, but serious complications put her health in real danger. Former homecoming queen Michelle (Catherine Keener), the eldest daughter, has one daughter of her own and an alienated, unsupportive husband. Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer), the middle sister, has an acting career that is beginning to take off, but is timid and insecure, and habitually relieves her trepidation by taking in stray dogs. Only the youngest sister, Annie (Raven Goodwin), an adopted African American 8-year-old, stands a chance of avoiding the family legacy of anxious self-absorption. If only her intelligence and curiosity will see her through what promises to be a confusing adolescence. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way.

Lisatud 13.06.2025, 878 618 950b, YTS.MX

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