This ensemble comedy follows an eccentric mother (Brenda Blethyn) her two adult daughters, the former homecoming queen (Catherine Keener) & the insecure actress (Emily Mortimer), and the 8-year-old adopted African American girl that unites them.
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Wealthy Los Angelino Jane Marks (Brenda Blethyn) has three daughters who seem to have nothing in common with each other or even Jane: married thirtysomething Michelle (Catherine Keener); Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer), an aspiring actress in her twenties; and adopted African-American eight-year-old Annie (Raven Goodwin). When Michelle's husband complains about her not working, she first tries her hand at selling her art and then gets a job at a photography shop, where she begins an affair with her 17-year-old boss Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal). Meanwhile, Elizabeth worries about her love-life and her career, looks after some stray dogs, and goes out on a date with popular actor Kevin McCabe (Dermot Mulroney). For her part, Annie starts faking her death in the swimming pool, and as for Jane, she suffers complications after a liposuction operation. Despite all this, the family somehow manages to keep going.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. With a handful of dry one-liners that pepper the script with much-needed comic relief, Lovely & Amazing takes a glimpse at the everyday lives of three sisters and their middle-aged mom. Michelle (Catherine Keener) is the eldest sister. She is an artist that makes tiny chairs out of twigs and moss, but cannot seem to find a market for them. Her husband, who grows more distant daily, nags her to get a real job. The light of her life is her 8-year-old daughter, but even there, she seems to cling to an ideal vision of motherhood that she has not yet achieved. Her sister Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer), an actress, struggles to overcome insecurities about her looks and has a bad habit of collecting stray dogs. Annie (Raven Goodwin), is their adopted African American sister who is 8 years old, overweight, and feels out of place. Jane (Brenda Blethlyn), their mother, is loving but self-centred, and she is hospitalised throughout the film because of a botched liposuction surgery. Writer/Director Nicole Holofcener (Walking And Talking) imbues the film with an unflinching frankness, banking hard situations and discouraging pitfalls against the stability of this closely-knit middle-class family. No matter how horrible life seems, the family is there as an indestructible safety net.
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