This wasn't too bad a movie about a mother who has problems raising her rebellious daughter-so she has HER mother do it! Felicity Huffman brings daughter Rachel (Lindsey Lohan) on a trip to Idaho to visit Grandmother Georgia (Jane Fonda). Georgia has very strict rules and raised Huffman very sternly. It isn't too long before she starts clashing with Rachel and imposing her "rules" on her.This is a movie about rules, raising children right, and fitting in. It's not a classic but not too bad either. You might like it if you like the stars in it.** 1/2 out of ****

I really don't get why this movie was rated so bad. I saw it when it came out in 2007 and now have just re-watched it, and surprisingly it's still really touching to me. George Rule may not be a comedy that you expect from its trailer (totally misguiding trailer). It's funny at times but in a whole, it's a painful and touching story. I was surprised at the way Gary Marshall conveyed this hard issue into a soft and nice movie like that. The acting was good, for the three female leading. Despite rumors about her bad behaviors on set, Lohan was still very good in the movie. I really miss her. She's such a talent who is struggling to find a way back from hell. Jane Fonda was good, too. She said she hated Lohan, but in the movie we just see a lovely grandma who loves her children a lot and deeply. This movie is much better than many chick flick out there. It's touching, it's no cliché, it's funny but no big talk, and it's real, very real. I give it an 8 for the scale of chick flicks alone, and a 6.5 for the scale of movies. Nice to see it.Totally not a waste of time.

As many of the other reviews stated, the trailer for this movie was severely misleading. The clip is a short collection of what some might consider the most comical scenes in the movie. If it weren't for other users, I wouldn't have even considered watching Georgia Rules. Because I had assumed it was 'just another chick flick'. Which it is far from.Georgia Rules tells the story of a rebellious teenager, Lindsay Lohan, sent to spend the summer in a remote town in Idaho. Living with her Grandmother, Jane Fonda, whose rules are strict and affection limited- Lindsay Lohan's Mother, Felicity Huffman, hopes for a change in her daughter's behaviour. Initially, the Mother seems sane and relatively unperturbed by her hectic life. It later becomes clear that her coping mechanism is an alcoholic tendency, which she inherited from her Father. Each of the women have difficult relationships with each other. And its clear that Mothers and Daughters are not allies in the family. Born and raised in California, Lindsay and Felicity (Who portray Rachael and Lilly), create quite a stir in a quiet religious town. This isn't a romantic comedy. In fact, there's very little romance at all. The last line of the movie, to me, was the funniest. I didn't find this movie comical, I found it tragic. Each of the characters are complex. So complex, its very credible. Each of them do wrong, but in their wrong there is right. Several times through out, Rachael (Lindsay Lohan), is told that she no longer knows the difference between right and wrong. And in so many ways, that is the underlying moral of this story. The fact that there is a fine line between two opposites.This is only enforced, when the audience apprehends that Rachael had in fact been sexually molested by her step father as a child, and that her being a "slut" was merely a quest for rejection. She looks for rejection. The confusion of emotions, the mistrusting, the growing relationships and human mistakes- make this movie worth watching. And, for me at least, easy to relate to.

I would just like to say that I thought this film is wonderful, despite the fact that it brings up bad memories. While I can say my experience was not as bad as some of the experiences I have heard others have experienced, I would like to say that to truly understand this film and the actions taken by the character portrayed by Lindsay Lohan, you would have had to have been molested and/or sexually assaulted yourself. The star character in this story had a negative sexual experience with someone she should have been able to trust. Due to the fact that her experience with sex was negative, her future relationships (sexual in nature or not), have forever been altered. Now, therapy and future positive experiences can change the outcome for the star character...but they can never, NEVER take back what she lost when she was victimized by her step father. If you have not experienced what the character went through, you can't really understand the entire gist of the film. The main point of the store is despite what the women in the story have gone through, they haven't let it completely change the fact that they can still get what they want and enjoy a life that they can carve for themselves.