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Raising Helen

Kate Hudson, Helen Mirren

Directed by Garry Marshall
Rolling Stone: star rating
5 1
Community: star rating
5 1 0
May 27, 2004

The poster with Kate Hudson in those hideous Ugg boots suggests a cutesy, calculating load of girlish drool. The poster doesn't lie. The movie Hudson as a shallow wanna-be fashionista who gains maturity by raising her dead sister's three kids. Despite Joan Cusack, whose comic spark earns the film its only, Raising Helen is like tumbling into chick-flick hell.

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