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Raising Helen (Full Screen Edition)
starring: Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Hayden Panettiere, Spencer Breslin
directed by: Garry Marshall

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788854552
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0788854550
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 13144
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 2004

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Editorial Review:

Description:
Academy Award(R) nominee Kate Hudson (Best Supporting Actress, ALMOST FAMOUS, 2000; HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS) lights up the screen with John Corbett (MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING) in this hit romantic comedy from the director of THE PRINCESS DIARIES and PRETTY WOMAN! Helen Harris (Hudson) has a glamorous, big-city life ... working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she’s always loved ... and the new loves of her life! Also starring Joan Cusack (IN & OUT), RAISING HELEN is a laugh-filled treat you're sure to fall in love with!

Amazon.com:
Kate Hudson wrestles with unlikely motherhood in Raising Helen, a comedy directed with the smooth professionalism of Garry Marshall, the man who brought us such cinematic fairy tales as Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries. Helen (Hudson, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) is an adorable hipster whose swift rise up the fashion industry ladder gets sideswiped when she finds herself responsible for raising three children, left in her care by the untimely death of one of her sisters. It's a standard frivolous-girl-grows-up story with an uneven script, but solidly performed by Hudson, John Corbett (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), ever-sexy Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls), and especially Joan Cusack (In and Out, Addams Family Values), who takes an obnoxious, uptight suburban mom and makes her the movie's emotional core. It's a miracle of acting alchemy; Cusack is one of contemporary comedy's most crucial performers. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A Bit Sacharine
Everything is a little too cute and sweet and wholesome. My teeth ache from watching: three orphans, their cute aunt try to raise them, while dating an impossibly wholesome minister. oi-vey!
Still, i DID watch the whole thing, so that's saying something.

Rating:

- "Lorenzo" Not Included.
The oscar nominated animated short film "Lorenzo", which was screened with Raising Helen in theatres and was originally announced as a part of this DVD release, is not included in the DVD. If you are interested in this DVD simply for Lorenzo please be advised. I hope this was helpful to some and at least informative to others.

Rating:

- Such an obnoxious movie for Smith and Vassar girls to adore
Oh how sooooooooooooo overally dramatic and pathetic, the sad tension and overacting is so tiring, it was so painful to endure each moment of the film. Love Kate Hudson, but she simply was unbearably blonde and grotesquely stereotypical of her role that is really quite unengaging. Joan Cusack is brilliant as always, but this is just so boring and useless and pointless and there is nothing remotely funny about the movie in any fashion. Cusack's asking Kate for the shell plates or whatever the case ... Read More

Rating:

- Surprisingly good
I was laid up with the flu and not in the mood for serious thinking so I selected this obviously lightweight romantic comedy mostly for the cast. I love Kate Hudson and John Corbett. When I realized it was directed by Garry Marshall I got a little depressed as I find his movies so formulaic and superficial that I feared for the worst.

However the story was really not so bad and the cast is quite wonderful. Hudson, like her famous mother, lights up every frame she's in and that alone ... Read More

Rating:

- Raising Helen
Helen finds herself in a situation she is not familiar with. After her sister's death, she is given custody of the three children. She has always been the party girl, but now she in the position of being a mom, and has no idea how to do it. This is a good film that touches on many issues. How to deal with loss, and how to raise children being at the forefront. Kate Hudson was well chosen to play Helen. You really get the feeling that she was completely out of her element being an authority figure ... Read More

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