Blu-ray Review – Georgia Rule

During his directorial career, Garry Marshall made 19 movies, and all of them had some level of comedic tilt to them. He was known for funny business, and he scored with vanilla entertainment, enjoying a reputation for making audience-friendly pictures, even with dire material ("Pretty Woman" is a good example of this). For 2007's "Georgia Rule," Marshall is gifted absolute darkness from screenwriter Mark Andrus, who creates a tale of multigenerational mistrust and destructive behaviors, looking into the corrosive ways of sexual abuse and alcoholism. It's a grim screenplay with a strange sense of character engagement, and Marshall isn't the person for the job, approaching such deep human suffering with a spring in his step, hoping to throw a party while everyone in the story tries to make sense of their suffering. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com