Because I Said So

2007
12
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

41K

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Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore in Because I Said So (2007)

A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.

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Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance

A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.A meddling mother tries to set her daughter up with the right man so her kid won't follow in her footsteps.

Director
- Michael Lehmann
Writers
- Karen Leigh Hopkins
- Jessie Nelson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

41K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Michael Lehmann
Writers
- Karen Leigh Hopkins
- Jessie Nelson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Videos8

Trailer 2:28

Official Trailer

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Because I Said So Scene: Milly Meets Johnny

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Because I Said So Scene: Milly Meets Johnny

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Because I Said So Scene: Milly And Daphane Notice A Guy At A Wedding

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Because I Said So Scene: The Sisters Discuss Jason

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Because I Said So Scene: Milly Tells Daphne It Is Not Too Late

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Because I Said So Scene: Jason Makes A Toast

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Trivia
The names of the daughters, Maggie (Lauren Graham), Milly (Mandy Moore), and Mae (Piper Perabo), come from an e.e. cummings poem that starts "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May went to the beach to play one day." A student in Johnny's guitar class is named Molly.

Goofs
Several times Milly puts her hands into an oven without oven mitts. When she takes her hands out she is wearing oven mitts.

Quotes
[from trailer]
Daphne Wilder: God couldn't be everywhere so that is why he invented mothers.
Maggie: What? That was on a Hallmark card we gave you

Alternate versions
In the Italian version, Milly and Jason are learning French instead of Italian.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Norbit/Factory Girl/The Astronaut Farmer/Because I Said So/The Situation (2007)

Soundtracks
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Written by Jack Lawrence
Performed by Sandie Shaw
Courtesy of EMI Records
Under license from EMI Film & TV Music

User reviews217

Featured review

5/10

love the actresses but

Daphne Wilder (Diane Keaton) happily marries off her two older daughters, Maggie (Lauren Graham) and Mae (Piper Perabo). Sadly her romantically-challenged youngest daughter Milly (Mandy Moore) is giving up. Daphne takes matters into her own hands and interviews men from the internet. She decides on entrepreneur Jason (Tom Everett Scott) and schemes to get them together. Musician Johnny (Gabriel Macht) witnesses the interviews and sets off to meet her himself. Milly ends up dating both men.

This is rather disappointing. I love every one of these actresses. The movie piles on a bunch of rom-com stuff. Bits of it seems fine but most of this is bad. It is bad writing. Keaton is doing some silly slapstick stuff. Moore is rather bland. Perabo doesn't get much screen time. Graham has some limited fun with Tony Hale. The two guys are pretty and possibly in the wrong roles. Macht can play the hard driven businessman better and Scott is the more artistic type. It's a lot of useless fluff that don't come together substantively.