I am NOT a critic. I'm merely an observer. (Books, movies, plays, musicals etc.)

Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine), a once-sucycessful businesswoman, works with young local writer Anne Serman (Amanda Seyfried) to pen her life story. When the initial result doesn't meet Lauler's high expectations, she sets out to reshape the way she'll be remembered, dragging Anne along as an unw illing accomplice. As their journey unfolds, the two women develop a strong bond which not only alters Harriet's legacy but also Anne's future.-WWW (source) Seyfried, MacLaine and Dixon The story is not entirely new and so is Ms MacLaine's character(is she typecast or something?), but I like the movie...well, maybe not everything, especially the cussing, but somehow I get why those expletives "had" to be uttered(Hmmm...am I warming up to someone or something???? Non sequitur). Both MacLaine and Seyfried produced this film, so they are on equal footing, but you cannot discount the vibrance of the child actor named Anne Jewel Lee Dixon.  S...