The People's Review of AnyWhere But Here
Goddess
score = 50
It was a good
story, but a little to long and slow...you can only go on about a mother-daughter
relationship for so long before you loose intrest.
Kimberly
score = 100
It's just great, you can't describe what you get from this movie. Your happy, sad,
touched, it's everything in one movie and it's definitely worth seeing.
Krista
score = 90
It was a Great movie, the songs were great too. It is a story that can be related to
by many. I want to see it again, that's for sure! Natalie Portman did a Terrific job! I
recomend it for every mother and daughter to see!
Brooke
score = 90
It was a really good movie. Itz open to where there could be squeal to this. I really
liked it it reminds me of my mom! And i know how ann feels in the movie! I Loved it!
Amanda
score = 70
It was a good movie on relationships but I couldn't really see a point to the movie.
A lot of topics weren't detailed enough to understand all of what happened.
Overall it was a great acting job on the parts of Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman.
Babs
score = 90
HOPE IS ALL SOME PEOPLE HAVE.... I know it may seem difficult to comprehend (by some)that
this kind of life is worth living. But,there is a 'richness-of-being' that unless
you are living it! one may not understand. My 14 yr old daughter made that very trip in
the summer of 94' from Wisconsin to Marin. Existence is not enough for everyone......
Elizabeth
score = 100
I thought it was a very good movie. I t was a good interpation of a struggling family.The
actors/actress were great.
Julia
score = 90
One of the best movies I've seen this year I love it It was a really good movie about a
mother and a daugther bonding and I love they whole thing except when Benny dies why do
people always have to die in movie maybe to make them seem more real I guess I don't know
wish really life turned out that way!
Robbie
score = 100
Ok.. let's see here.. I loved this movie.. Natalie Portman.. oh my god how beautiful can
you get.. that movie was touching and everything.. I swear one day Im gonna meet her=)
I love everything about her... anyway.. dont want to get too into this I give it 2
thumbs way way up=)
Ames
I liked the movie. I thought that the acting was pretty ok except that Natalie Portman
looked like she was going to cry during the whole damn movie! alls well that ends well bye
Ames
sophia
score = 100
it was one of the best moives i have ever seen i want to go back to the moives and see it
again but are you going to make a second one i want to get the moive when it comes
out i hope u make a second one it was one of the best pg-13 moives i had ever seen
please write back
Kates
It was o.k. I thought it would have been an uplifting mother daughter movie opportunity.
Its actually a depressing, heavy movie. Better to see with a friend or husband than to
take an adolescent daughter to.
Anna
score = 90
I really liked this movie. It's true that Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon are basically
the whole film, and this would have been boring had they had been anyone else. However,
Natalie Portman is amazingly beautiful and a joy in most any movie; Susan Sarandon plays
her role perfectly. This film makes you cry, laugh, smile, and in general, uplifts you. It
is sad though, and it really touches you because it's about the trials of life and the
realities of growing up. Anyone female that has ever been annoyed by their mother can
relate to this movie. It sends the message that despite all the hatred and irritation that
Anne (Natalie Portman) may have felt for her mother, she realizes that her mom loves her
and has special qualities. I too have had the 'blame mother' syndrome but I left this
movie appreciating my mother more and knowing that who she is has made me into the person
I am. Wonderful movie.
natalie
score = 100
I loved it it was a really great movie and i can't wait to see it
again!!!natalie portman was wonderfull and i think ,along /w lot's of others
i spoke with that she deserved not only a nomination,but an acadmy
award.
bob
score = 10
I think that this movie could have been a lot better. i don't think
anyone should have been nominated for ANY awards!!!!!!!!! i
think that ann and her mom should not fight so much. you need to make
a movie about happiness and love and joy and the exact opposite of mean mean
mean!!!!!!! i thnk that it should be just like barney's great
adventure. it was happy no meanness and defenitly NO adult situations. i
think the movie should have less sexual talk and adel should not be
such a bad influence on ann. i really think the movie stunk!!!!!
P-U YYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!! DON'T EVER LET THIS MOVIE BE
SHOWN IN THEATERS AGAIN!!!!! I HATED IT!!!!! PEOPLE SHOULD NOT
GO SEE THIS
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THAN THAT, ILOVED IT!! IT WAS VERY EXCITING!!!!(NOT)
Poison
Ivy
score = 90
The movie was really good even if it's kind'a long and dragging.It clearly
visualizes the typical mother-daughter relationship evolving in our modern
society.The actors were able to give justice to their roles.Good job!
kleng
score = 80
The
movie is great and it gives me a lesson in life. it is worth seeing and the
cast are great but on the contrary there are events i dont understand.
Haley
score = 90
This movie was really touching, a must see. Really great story line,
it was funny and a real tear jurker at the same time. Fabulous!
Anthony
score = 40
The idea is simple: a young girl and her mother share a love/hate
relationship. It's not a very original storyline (which is not always
a problem--witness the fundamentally flawed, yet razor sharp Meryl Streep
film, Postcards From The Edge), but unfortunately, the telling of the tale
stays that way, as well--only mediocre. The main problem (there are
several, however) is that the film lacked a sense of character. Bonnie
Bedelia had a fraction of a part, Shawn Hatosey was a charicature--an
amalgam of Rainman and Sling Blade--and perhaps the most talented actress of
the lot (in this film, at least), Thora Birch, hardly registered, at all.
The only developed people were Ms. Portman and Ms. Sarandon. And even THEIR
relationship felt a little strained. Almost as if the situations laid out
for them were placed SPECIFICALLY to be used as obstacles or moments that
would REQUIRE a mother/daughter confrontation. I can accept arguing over ice
cream. But the lead in to it was listless. Arguing over a party? Please. And
of course, the only person for Ms. Portman to portray during her audition
was her mother, right? The audition itself was the only fresh idea the movie
had going for it. Watching it was forgetting where you were. It was a pearl
inside the old, barnacled oyster, and Ms. Portman ran wild with it. I would
have given her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for that scene alone. It
was the silliest, the corniest, most obvious, and yet the most audacious
one, ringing truer than anything else in this disaster of a movie. A lesser
actress would have played Anne August with whiny postures: a kid playing a
kid, in every sense of the word. A better actress would have chosen a better
movie to be in. Or would she? Meryl Streep made She Devil, Glenn Close made
101 Dalmations, and Jodi Foster made Nell. Perhaps it is not how good an
actress is, but rather how much of a challenge she wants to attempt. Perhaps
Ms. Portman IS a brilliant actress, who, single handedly raised the bar for
this sub-standard film. Y! es, I think that may be the case. She may very
well BE an acting genius, who figured out the nuances and rhythms of a
virtually pulse-less movie. In a way, she is a miracle worker, giving life
to something that was dead on arrival. Heck, doesn't she deserve an award
for that alone? I'd give her the Pulitzer for showing up for work at all,
and not straying Anywhere But Here.
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It is
mid-summer 1995 as a 1978 Mercedes zooms down the highway, heading west. Inside sit
14-year-old Ann August (Natalie Portman) and her mother Adele (Susan Sarandon). Against
her will, Ann is being moved to Beverly Hills where Adele, stifled by small-town life in
Bay City, Wisconsin, hopes to make her colorful dreams come true. Ann is furious at having
to leave the life she loves. Adele is tired of defending herself against her daughter's
longings for home and family, and feels that she's taking Ann away from a lifeless future
and offering her an exciting new world. 
