Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Rachel This movie was not what I expected at all. One hears Ricki Lake's name and automatically assumes that somewhere her pregnant character will burst into song and tease her hair to the heights, but I actually surprisingly enjoyed her in this movie. Yes, she was a little bit of a ham and her age didn't fit the character, but she did a good job playing the little downtrodden city girl who, through a battle with mistaken identity, finds the family she wished she'd always had.As for issues with her attitude and her changes into a society girl, did anyone ever think that maybe she was not that much of a wild child before, and that her acclimation into society was easier than she would have expected? Come on, who on this site doesn't speak a little differently in front of their parents versus their friends? I know I have to give myself a mental warning to try to keep my tongue from slipping when I visit my mom...seriously, everybody does this to some degree, you just don't think about it. I mean, imagine going to church...do you curse in front of your pastor or priest? No. You'd never dream of it. With your friends after a few margaritas? Yes, often something naughty would come out.With that said, Shirley MacLaine and Brendan Fraser are charming, warm and human. She is absolutely the perfect high society misfit leader of a crazy but accepted clan. She's funny, sweet and caring, and smarter than her son or Connie give her credit for. I love, love, love her in this role! Brendan's Hugh/Bill is a marvelous character. The brief moments we see Hugh are sweet, and we unknowingly get a contrast between the two men when we first see the movie. Hugh's free spirit is an instant draw, where Bill's all business attitude at the start takes getting used to.Others on this site have said that it is unconvincing for Bill to have gone from a bit of a cold fish to the warm, funny, in-love guy that he becomes, but I can see the possibilities. If you can put yourself into the character's shoes, here is a man who's just lost his twin brother and been thrown in with the man's wife. He feels some attraction to this pretty, goofy young woman, but this is his DEAD BROTHER'S WIFE! Society would frown upon it...wouldn't't't it? Besides, he's the more sensible twin. He hasn't found that woman who brings out the softer side, so why change? Well...because something about this girl is so endearing, so charming, that he finds himself warming up. It's out of his hands...he can't help it. He's crazy about her. And when he's ready to rat her out to Grace, but Connie tells Grace not to put her in the will, he realizes she really ISN'T there for the money, and that just makes her more lovable. How could he tell Grace and potentially cause another attack? I won't say anymore about what goes on in the movie, as I've done enough damage, but my mom introduced me to this sweet and funny movie, and I was charmed and pleased with the whole film. The ending was satisfying (and I know how the paperwork *flub* is fixable, but if I explain, I'll be saying too much!) and I came away happy, so it's definitely worth giving a shot! Rent it, watch it, don't expect too much, and you'll definitely be satisfied!

tex-42 Mrs. Winterbourne is perhaps the epitome of romantic comedies, in the requirement that you suspend disbelief. It almost commands that you not think about the plot too much, because if you do, the entire movie falls apart.The plot is simple. Connie Doyle is thrown out by her boyfriend when she becomes pregnant, and she ends up on a train with the Winterbournes, a wealthy young couple on their way to Boston. The train derails, and both Winterbournes are killed. However, as Connie was trying on Mrs. Winterbourne's ring at the time of the accident, she is mistaken for her, and her baby for the Winterbourne grandchild. What follows is what always happens in romantic comedies, Connie is taken in by the Winterbourne family and falls in love with the dead Winterbourne's twin brother, who is initially suspicious of her, but then grows to love her. Complications arise, but everything works out in the end.Shirley MacLaine is quite winning at Grace Winterbourne, and Miguel Sandoval steals most of his scenes. The problem is that neither Ricki Lake or Brendan Fraser have much chemistry with each other, and Ricki Lake seems miscast in general. Of course, there are also massive plot holes here, and even in the end, no one really seems to care that the real Mrs. Winterbourne and the real Winterbourne grandchild are off buried somewhere under someone else's name. This is not a bad movie, it's perfectly pleasant, but you really are required to not think about the plot at all to really enjoy it.

addylennox Because Brendan Fraser and Shirley Maclaine make it surprisingly bearable. Ricki Lake, God bless her, was, in a word, miscast; without the strength of Fraser and Maclaine, this movie is a two, at best a three. She's brings no life to the role, no reality. At best, she was an over-actor. At worst... well, she was a bad over-actor. A really, really bad over-actor. Still, for a movie that had so much potential (if not for the sometimes unbelievable -yet entertaining- storyline, then definitely for the two aforementioned lead actors) that was lost beneath the looming shadow that is Lake, I'd watch it again. If it were on cable TV... and if nothing else is on.

edwagreen As she gets older, veteran actress Shirley Mac Laine just gets better and better.In this wonderful 1996 film, Miss MacLaine portrays the mother of a son and daughter who are tragically killed in a train wreck. Since she never met her daughter-in-law, this will provide for the wonderful plot.Ricki Lake is a young girl down on her luck. Finding herself pregnant from an abusive hoodlum-like boyfriend, the latter kicks her out when he discovers her condition. It is her good fortune to meet up with MacLaine's son and new daughter-in-law. She is in the train when it crashes and having just put on the dead woman's wedding ring, she is easily mistaken for MacLaine's new daughter-in-law.When she gives birth to the baby, MacLaine is a grandmother! Lake soon finds her dead "husband's" brother (Brendon Fraser) as her love interest. Naturally, seeing Lake in the newspaper with her wealthy "family" brings back the boyfriend to do some blackmailing. The fun really starts when the boyfriend is murdered and some more surprises are revealed.The cast is just perfect and the storyline is done well.