Because I Said So Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Last modified: Dec. 21, 2008

Because I Said So

Director: Michael Lehmann

Starring: Diane Keaton • Lauren Graham • Piper Perabo • Gabriel Macht • Tom Everett Scott

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 42 m

75% WILL SEE 25% WON'T SEE

Plot: Daphne Wilder is a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. As a single parent, she has raised three fantastic girls--klutzy, adorable Milly, stable psychologist Maggie and sexy and irreverent Mae--to become the kind of women any mom would die to have. The only problem is they're about to strangle her. In order to prevent her youngest, Milly, from making the same romantic mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set her up with the perfect man. The one thing Daphne decides not to tell Milly, however, is that she placed an ad in the online personals to find him. If anyone knows exactly what her daughter does and doesn't need out of a long-term relationship (or clothes or her career), it's Daphne. Comic mayhem unfolds as the well-intended mom continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons--all in the name of love for her beloved daughter. Is the man of Daphne's (erm, Milly's) dreams the responsible architect Jason, or is he the free-spirited rocker Johnny? Daphne will continue to push, cajole, suggest and nudge her way into Milly's smallest of decisions until she rights the wrongs of her own life choices or drives her girl nuts. But once Johnny's own father, Joe, catches a buried spark within Daphne, things really start to heat up for the Wilder matriarch. Finally letting herself begin to fall, Daphne begins to wonder if she is just pushing her girls as a way of ignoring her own issues.

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The film's writer Karen Leigh Hopkins last penned Miss Meadows and Mourning Glory.

Dec 2004

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Parent Rating: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity
Runtime: 1 hr, 42 m
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Language: English

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Because I Said So was released in on Friday, February 2 , 2007. There were three other movies released on the same date, including The Messengers, Factory Girl and East of Havana.