I cry every time, but it’s been far too long since I’ve given it a re-watch. I loved the turn on the other woman cliché, and that the pair were able to form their own relationship for the sake of the children. Susan Sarandon obviously wins the film, but Roberts is able to hold her own and meet her in every scene. But not only that, she has perfect comic timing which she displays here in great scenes opposite the late Albert Finney.Ĭlare: Stepmom is a perfect film. Every scene in this film Julia is spectacular, she is a fantastic dramatic actress I feel because she has such an emotive face, she can say so much with a look. This is a true story about a woman who uncovers deception in a huge American company who are poisoning the residents of a small town. Julia won her Oscar for this film and when you watch it, it is no surprise. Mary: Erin Brockovich is a very different film, but shows all of the fire she has shown in other roles but dialled to eleven. But the great thing about this film is by the end it brings them together and you want them to see eye to eye and when they truly accept each other in the last scenes it is truly touching. At first you feel like you need to take sides, pick one or the other. Stepmom is such a great film, it is a great double act, she goes head to head with Susan Sarandon, I have said in our recent podcast episode on Julia Roberts that they are like chalk and cheese and I really believe that. Mary: Two of my favourites both dramas, showing she did not just make romance films which she was extremely well known for in the 90s. Roberts is great as Katherine Watson and it felt like an excellent choice of role to lose that rom-com notoriety. It’s a wonderful ensemble film and all the women involved give their all. It’s been so long since I’ve watched it, I think I’d convinced myself no-one else had ever seen it. It’s a sophisticated message wrapped up in a film that is also a joy to watch – even if Kirsten Dunst plays an unbearable cow!Ĭlare: Mona Lisa Smile was one of my absolute favourite films when I was a teenager. I think it’s extremely clever how the film uses art as a metaphor similarly to her off-syllabus approach to teaching History of Art, Julia Roberts’ character Katherine Watson pushes the students of the conservative women’s college Wellesley in 1953 to “look beneath the surface” of the traditional housewife image – a role they have all been taught to believe they were born to fill, regardless of their potential to achieve more. Matt: I loved re-watching Mona Lisa Smile this week because I picked up on so much more of the social commentary than I did when I was a teenager. Most of that isn’t down to Roberts, but she does a good job with her little (see what I did there?) role. Like Matt, I only saw it for the first time this year but I utterly adored it. And while Julia Roberts is amazing – as always – her character in this is simply just not very likeable, which is a real shame because in this sense it feels like she was miscast!Ĭlare: This is now the third post on the site with me declaring my love for Hook. Matt: My Best Friend’s Wedding on the other hand … oh dear! I mean, it’s not exactly good is it? Some iconic scenes, but the film would fall flat if it weren’t for Rupert Everett. I liked it, it’s good! Though I think I prefer the scenes set in London with Maggie Smith to those set in Neverland (I especially didn’t understand all of the skateboarding…) A bit like what Mary said about Steel Magnolias, this isn’t Julia Roberts’ film – and I would argue it’s perhaps the strangest role she’s ever done – but she definitely gave Tinkerbell a voice. Matt: So I bit the bullet and watched Hook for the first time this week (yes, I know, “You haven’t seen Hook?!”), it was one of those I’m pretty sure had been on in the background at some point so I’d technically seen it before in my periphery, but never actively put it on to watch myself.
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