- Title
- The Meddler
- Written by
- Lorene Scafaria
- Directed by
- Lorene Scafaria
- Starring
- Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne and J.K. Simmons
- Classification
- PG
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
"The Meddler" sounds like a Batman villain, and just because the Susan Sarandon-played character isn't that, it doesn't mean she isn't formidable – and adorable and incorrigible. In Lorene Scafaria's crowd-pleasing bicoastal comedy, Sarandon is a well-meaning widow who fends off her grief and procrastinates in getting on with life by meddling in the lives of her daughter (Rose Byrne) and various pseudo-offspring. J.K. Simmons gently excels as a patient ex-cop, chicken-farming suitor. It's a sitcom-y, Sarandon-wrapped Mother's Day valentine.