I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis) is mentally handicapped. Elizabeth (Diane Keaton) pushes her reluctant husband Radley (Tom Skerritt) to send her to a special school. Carla returns home and tries to readjust but her mother is controlling. Her sisters Caroline (Poppy Montgomery) and Heather (Sarah Paulson) are moving on. Her mother finally relents and Carla goes to vocational school where she meets Danny (Giovanni Ribisi) with similar problems.Director Garry Marshall can't help himself in making a broad rom-com out of this material. Juliette Lewis is wrong and the comedy feels awkward. It is horribly Hollywood and loses any edge. In one sense, it's good that mentally handicap characters can be used in a bad rom-com. I just wish that somebody would make a better one.

I happen to have a daughter pretty much like Carla. She's been through a huge lot of difficulties all her life, and she never gave up. She's all joy, and love, and innocence, and purity, and strength, and wisdom, pretty much like the character. She's 17 now, next year she'll be graduating from high school at a "regular" school, she's just started a relationship with a boy, and she's so happy... You can imagine how this movie, and especially Juliette's amazing performance, moved me to the core. I watched it last night, and I've been waiting all day for the moment to be able to watch it again. It's a movie I'll treasure, and I sure hope they make a sequel.

Beautiful story, fabulous cast... Hector Elizando & Diane Keaton kick @$$! ^_^ Juliette & Giovani deserve frickin' Oscars or something for their awesome job in this film.... this movie is extremely realistic to those of us with disabilities. I was born with Epilepsy.. my mom has always been over-protective while my father refuses to acknowledge it.. He sees meas perfectly normal, like my sisters & brother. for the longest time, my mom wouldn't et me do the simplest things my siblings were allowed to, while my father was all "go for it" I found this film to hit very close to home for me. It is high on my recommendation list for other people. 10 Stars! **********

I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks this movie is bad. This movie touches my heart, and I'm sure many others with it's amazing plot line and wonderful characters.I guess people would say that the characters are undeveloped and not so thought out, but I disagree. Who are we to say what a mental handicapped person would act like? They're not all the same. I don't think people would like it if someone said that we were all the same.I think people don't like this movie because they are uncivilized and do not understand the difficulty that mentally challenged people have to face! I would like to see some of the people who don't like this movie pretend their mentally handicapped and not over do it or under do it.This movie should open your eyes and your heart to the challenging life mentally handicapped people have to deal with everyday. For those of you who poke fun at mentally handicapped people, I hope you take a look in the mirror and find out what makes you so selfish.