Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 12/14/1999
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The feminist outrage of
Thelma & Louise (1991) screenwriter
Callie Khouri blended superbly with director
Lasse Hallstrom's predilection for stories about idiosyncratic families in this effective comedy-drama.
Julia Roberts stars as Grace King Bichon, a prim small-town wife who is incensed when she learns that her husband Eddie Bichon (
Dennis Quaid) is having an affair, and that it's not his first dalliance. Grace embarrasses her husband publicly -- then moves in with her wise-mouthed little sister Emma Rae (the scene-stealing
Kyra Sedgwick). Grace becomes even angrier when her mother Georgia (
Gena Rowlands) and wealthy father, horse breeder Wyly King (
Robert Duvall), side with Eddie in the conflict, fearing the small-town gossip that's sure to swirl around their daughter's marital woes. However, when Georgia finds that Wyly has been a long-term philanderer as well, she kicks him out of his palatial home, embroiling the entire King family in a war between the sexes.
Something to Talk About went through several title changes, variously being named "Game of Love" and "Grace Under Pressure" before producers settled on the title of the popular
Bonnie Raitt song.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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