Tumbleweeds

Tumbleweeds is a wonderful mother and daughter films since Terms of Endearment. Janet McTeer is terrific which she really loses her British accent in her sweet natured role as the free-spirited, but demanding mother who is looking for all the right... Full review

Yes we all know about the reviews you want to get from people about the movie you want to see is worth your time. The answer to this movie is yes. I think that if you are a girl you should... Full review

A Southern woman (excellent Oscar nominee Janet McTeer) leaves an abusive relationship and hits the road with her young daughter (Kimberly J. Brown) looking for the man of her dreams. Of course though McTeer's dreams are foggy and incoherent when... Full review

Mary Jo Walker is constantly on the road. She moves from state to state as one relationship ends and she heads out looking for another. Her daughter is used to the unsettled lifestyle but starts to feel at home in... Full review

Tumbleweeds is a great movie that has everything to offer, you just have to love it. Kimberly Brown & Janet Mcteer play mother and daughter in the movie and they are both great, especially: Kimberly. (An amazing actress.) I'd recommend Tumbleweeds... Full review

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This movie is great because Janet McTeer steals the show. She really deserved the oscar nod for this. She added so much to the charator that made her so much fun to watch on screen.... Full review

The other review of this film misses the point entirely. There is indeed tension, of the emotional variety, between daughter and mother. The child is the adult and the adult is child-like. One always hopes for the mother to make... Full review

The premise of a film about a mother and 12 year-old daughter on the road is not necessarily attractive to everyone. But this was a refreshing example of the genre, mainly because the director allowed character development. Mother and daughter... Full review

Sorry for the long review, but I can't remain quiet on this one! Please read on to save yourself from pain!This is just one of the poorest examples of American film! From the moment that the viewer is unfortunate enough... Full review

I must say I enjoyed Tumbleweeds as a pleasant diversion - one helped along immensely by McTeers superb performance But British actress McTeer provides enough ballsy bravado mixed with tender vulnerability to make it a consistently interesting production. ... Full Review

For all its earnest naturalism, the film has odd off-key notes. McTeer may be a little much at times, but Brown's more restrained performance is dead-on. Jack (Gavin O'Connor), the New Mr. Wrong, is a tough-looking ... Full Review

Pleasant Mother-Daughter Portrait A Review by Rachel Gordon 07/11/2001 Tumbleweeds is a somewhat predictable gem focusing on an unusual mother-daughter relationship. I may appreciate Tumbleweeds more than some, having grown up with a single mother who had her share of boyfriends that I found difficult to tolerate, and because I sometimes felt the lines were blurry about who played which role. ... Full Review

it is generally a very enjoyable film Tumbleweeds is a well-written, well-acted enjoyable film. The script, the acting, and the film direction, however, make the film one which can be enjoyed by everyone. While the film is at times predictable ... Full Review

Honest and real, Tumbleweeds is a delight..... ... Full Review

The third in a trilogy of melodramas for 2000 - in wide release at least - Tumbleweeds is the indie compatriot to studio pics Anywhere But Here and Where The Heart Is ; three female flavoured road movies, set in... ... Full Article

Movies about children who are wise beyond their years can be tough to pull off. Adult writers, forgetting what it was like to be a kid, tend to create child characters who are too precocious, too grown-up to be believed... ... Full Article

Celluloid maternal relationships have been all over the map: We've seen the histrionic sacrificial (in the, er, mother of all mother-daughter films, 1937's Stella Dallas ), the bitterly repressive (1942's Now Voyager ), the bratty and traitorous ('45's Mildred Pierce... ... Full Article

Dec. 19, 1999 -- "Tumbleweeds" is a film about a woman who tends to choose badly when it comes to men, but at least has the sense to bail out of abusive relationships. ... Full Article

FOR A SEXY mommy, like the one in "Tumbleweeds," driving cross-country with her puckish virgin daughter, every day is a winding road, and "Pack your bags!" is a wake-up call delivered in the time it takes to hurl a casserole ... Full Article

TUMBLEWEEDS: drama. Starring Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Jay O. Sanders, Gavin O'Connor. Directed by Gavin O'Connor. (PG-13. 100 minutes. At AMC 1000 Van Ness.) It's easy to see why British actress Janet McTeer, who stars in the new movie ... Full Article