What rescues the proceedings is the presence of Bening and, above all, of Watts, both of whom seek to offset the mush by presenting us with women who are not just brittle and dismayed but positively unlikable.

NEWYORKER: Mother and Child

Sure, but not overnight and not without the kind of unified, industry-wide, cooperative effort that the economic nightmares from which both Europe and the US are still trying to awaken would tend to discourage.

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