[PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING
opens in Cleveland on Friday June 8th exclusively at the Cedar Lee
Theatre.]
Review
by Bob Ignizio
Can PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING
really be the third
semi-major motion picture in the span of a year in which the answers
to all life's problems can be found in half-baked hippie wisdom?
Evidently so. Once again, as in last August's OUR
IDIOT BROTHER
and this year's JEFF,
WHO LIVES AT HOME,
said wisdom is provided by a family member who is regarded as
something of a black sheep for their pot smoking, peace-and-loving
ways. The twist on the doobie in this case is that the black sheep is
the family matriarch, Grace (Jane Fonda).
Grace's
daughter Diane (Katherine Keener) is the antithesis of her mom, an
uptight, conservative lawyer. The two haven't spoken since Diane had
her mom arrested for selling pot at her wedding, which means Grace
has never even seen her teenage grandkids Zoe (Elisabeth Olsen) and
Jake (Nat Wolf). When her husband (Kyle MacLachlan in a small role)
says he wants a divorce, however, Diane decides to take the kids and
head off for a family reunion at Grace's farmhouse in Woodstock (where else).
