Laura Hope Crews as the meddlesome mother has such a sing-songy voice that within 15 minutes she had me drifting off. They just let her drone on and on and on and on.
Then her whiffle-spined younger son lays his head on her lap to console her. She's upset her other son, Joel McCrea, is taking a job in London with his wife Irene Dunne. Look at the way he stares into her eyes. Hmmm. Just a little bit creepy.
Then she starts whining to McCrea directly. And it gets worse when she finds out Dunne is expecting a baby. Ugh. I'd be on the first board out of New York if that was my mom.
If you have McCrea and Dunne in your movie they should be on screen most of the time. Don't give the picture over to a dumpy old lady whose voice lulls sailors to their deaths on the rocks.
I had no idea who Frances Dee was. And now I learned she met McCrea on this film shoot. And that they were married 57 years!. That's about all this movie is good for.
Then her whiffle-spined younger son lays his head on her lap to console her. She's upset her other son, Joel McCrea, is taking a job in London with his wife Irene Dunne. Look at the way he stares into her eyes. Hmmm. Just a little bit creepy.
Then she starts whining to McCrea directly. And it gets worse when she finds out Dunne is expecting a baby. Ugh. I'd be on the first board out of New York if that was my mom.
If you have McCrea and Dunne in your movie they should be on screen most of the time. Don't give the picture over to a dumpy old lady whose voice lulls sailors to their deaths on the rocks.
I had no idea who Frances Dee was. And now I learned she met McCrea on this film shoot. And that they were married 57 years!. That's about all this movie is good for.