Charms for the Easy Life Movie Review 2002

Southern matriarch and holistic healer, Miss Charlie Kate (Rowlands) has definite opinions--she loathes her no-account son-in-law and won't set foot in her daughter Sophie's (Rogers) house. Fortunately, he eventually dies and Miss Charlie moves in to help look after granddaughter Margaret (Pratt). Miss Charlie has a generally low opinion of men since her husband ran off but the more fragile Sophie is pleased to have a suitor (Johnson) and teen Margaret also finds a boy (Mitchell) who thinks she's neat. Set in the mid-1940s; based on Kaye Gibbon's 1993 novel. Graceful and charming and all three actresses keep the sentimental excess to a minimum.

Distribution

Showtime Networks, Inc., 5120 E. La Palma, No. 103, Anaheim Hills, CA 92807, Email: customerservice@sho.com, URL: http://www.SHO.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 111 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Period Piece: 1940s, American South, Female Bonding, Moms, Family Drama

Screenplay

Angela Shelton

Cast

Gena Rowlands, Mimi Rogers, Susan May Pratt, Geordie Johnson, Kenneth Mitchell

Cinematography

Jean Lepine

Director

Joan Micklin Silver

Music

Van Dyke Parks