Draw Breath

A recent Guardian Unlimited film podcast describes Diane Keaton's role in Because I Said So as nearly wiping out all the good of her previous film career. In fact, she not only launches an impressive attack on her own reputation but attempts to kill off the careers of her co-stars by association.

The plot, such as it is, is simple. A caring single mother tries to set up her single daughter with a suitable man. The highly original counterpoint to this is that her daughter has other ideas.

A film in the supposedly romantic comedy vein, this viewer can report that not one laugh was heard from the cinema for the entire course of the film.

And who in their right mind calls their infant son Lionel? It is crying out to be parodied. In fact, a parody might just save Diane Keaton.