Sarandon is good. Portman is close to marvelous. The most important force in this film tough is Wayne Wang. He clearly got that it are not the cry-and-hug or the emotional-shouting scènes that give us the best drama but the simple, quiet moments his characters experience every day. But then there is the script, apart from not being very original, the biggest problem with it is that the mother-daughter relationship, that is central in this movie, isn't difficult enough. So it are the small side-stories that move and hurt you.
Review of Anywhere But Here
