Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

smilingspider-97918 Wow what a piece of work this granny is! From her incest thoughts about her grandson,the way she treated her disabled son and her delusions about her self importance.This woman is just sick and believes she's far more important than anyone else...umm being a model doesn't make you great or important ..ever heard of a doctor or ambulance drivers?.The way she treated her son with mental illness is atrocious going on about her big wonderful house and maybe he can come visit sometimes..Jesus he needs help not a visit.The performance about the grandson having a girlfriend pushed her delusional jealously to the limit.Best part of the film was when she died and made the world a much better place

keelygirl2 The grandmother is just the worst. For reasons that are not totally revealed, she jettisons her kids when they are very young and temporarily reclaims them later. She is a total narcissist- and it is bewildering that the universe would allow one who had acted so egregiously to "suck air" for over 90 years. I felt terrible for her grown sons, who decades later are still trying to bravely face the trauma visited on them by their beastly mother. She claims to have been "too young" to face raising children....ok, she then fails to acknowledge that her kindergarten age children were also "too young" to face life without a parent. Caught up in her own self absorbed delusions, Marianne escapes all accountability for a lifetime of grief that she caused her family. The single saving grace of the movie was that the near criminal behavior of the grandmother seems to bring together the surviving males in the family. It is a compelling story but takes a long time to unfold and is never fully explained.

biobecaschile The film screams multi-generational incest, but of course, it is never explained. There are hints of the great grandfather's interest in Maryanne, the grandmother.In some ways this is a Holocaust survivor film, but that too, is never developed. All we know is that because Maryanne's father was a self-hating Jew they moved from Germany to Holland. It is a film with few secrets shared. Why did grandmother live in South Africa? Where did her money come from? How did the film maker deal with his grandmother's passion for him and apparently his father? Despite the lack of disclosure, it is hard to stop thinking of grandmother. In many ways the evasive nature of of the film conveys the grandmother's evasive personality.

no name given I never comment on documentaries but this movie is so bad I feel like I need to vent somewhere for wasting my time. The movie is basically a self made family film about a pretentious and self-absorbed matriarch with psychological problems that make the rest of her family sick. The great mystery for me is why they keep coming back to her. Is it her money or all they all mentally ill? The more I watched the more I hated the subjects in the film. None of them have anything to present that is all interesting unless perhaps you like family tension and strife. The matriarch is only interesting because how warped she is. Maybe it's dementia but the telling of her life story seems to be that she has always been toxic. I feel sorry for any men that crossed her path and no wonder at end of her life she is all alone.