BECAUSE I SAID SO
Year: 2007
USA: Universal Pictures
UK: Entertainment Film Distributors
Cast: Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Stephen Collins, Lauren Graham, Gabriel Macht, Piper Perabo, Tom Everett Scott, Ty Panitz, Matt Champagne, Colin Ferguson, Tony Hale, Sophina Brown, Karen Leigh Hopkins, Gerald Downey, Ingrid Sanai Buron, Satya Lee, Alexis Rhee, Shu Lan Tuan, Steve Little, John Ross Bowie, Parvesh Cheena, Doug Budin, Willam Belli, Carlo Michael Mancini, Mary Pat Gleason, Judi Barton, Rudolph Willrich, David Purdham
Director: Michael Lehmann
Country: USA
USA: 102 mins
UK: 101 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex references
USA Release Date: 2 February 2007
UK Release Date: 16 February 2007
Synopsis
She's just your normal, overprotective, overbearing, over-the-top mother.
Powerhouse actresses Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham and Piper Perabo serve up the laughs when they join wickedly funny director Michael Lehmann (THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS, 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS) in his new film about cutting the apron strings, BECAUSE I SAID SO.
Daphne Wilder (Keaton) is a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. She is the proud mom of three daughters: stable psychologist Maggie (Graham), sexy and irreverent Mae (Perabo) and insecure, adorable Milly (Moore), who, when it comes to men, is like psychotic flypaper. In order to prevent her youngest from making the same mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set Milly up with the perfect man. However what Milly doesn't know is that her mom placed an ad in the online personals to find him.
Comic mayhem unfolds as Daphne continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons...all in the name of love. In a hilarious battle of strong wills, the mother-daughter dynamic is tested in all its fierce, wacky complexity. The girls help Daphne finally discover the truths and impossibilities of motherly love, all while trying to answer the questions: where does it begin and where should it end?