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Lange's portrayal as a controlling and jealous mother in law is flawless. She manages to capture all the first blush and charm that first meetings between the prodigal son and his girlfriend often have - all that false affection and niceness, the kisses on the cheek, the "we've heard so much about you", the note of sweetness that strikes us as a bit open publishing false because we all know that the mother would slit the girl's throat in open publishing an instant, open publishing if for nothing else than for seemingly havening stolen the son from his mommy-dearest. For the girlfriend, for Paltrow in this film, the issue here is that the more the son loves you, the more that boyfriend or fiancé or husband who took you home for the first time to meet the folks loved you, the worse off you will fare with the mother, for all too often the mother plays out her archetypal role and the hooks come out. Lange is brilliant in the role for she is not the least bit frumpy, but more the older equivalent of Paltrow, blonded and busty, she is a real fertile mama, tending house and shoveling horseshit on the family farm of Kilronan, where, alas, papa passed away long ago when prodigal son was a mere child.
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