The Adoration of Kathleen Turner in The Perfect Family (thepoliticker.observer)
Good movies with a point of view are as hard to produce as winning lottery tickets. Kathleen Turner has produced one that is vital and amusing and well worth seeing. It’s called _The Perfect Family_ and it’s about a family that is anything but. Easy as a sigh, the accomplished, charismatic and multifaceted actress is also the star. Kudos all around. In The Perfect Family, she plays Eileen Cleary, a devout, self-obsessed Catholic so enslaved by dogma and ritual that she crosses herself and gives thanks to God before she so much as eats a vegetarian tamale. She’s been dedicating herself to the church for so many years that when her priest (Richard Chamberlain) nominates Eileen for “Catholic Woman of the Year,” she knows it’s a sign from God. She just has to win this coveted title because she deserves it. After all, her life is filled with prayer meetings, charitable works, everyday mass, meals on wheels, administering to shut-ins, passing out communion wafers—almost always at her own family’s expense. The award is the thing Eileen covets more than a week of Sundays. It will go to the perfect wife and mother with the perfect ...
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