May 10, 2007
With "Georgia Rule," Lindsay Lohan has made her "Gigli."
That's partly because it's as epically awful as that notorious 2003 bomb starring the artist formerly known as Bennifer. Primarily, though, it's because Lohan's well-documented off-camera antics are such a distraction, as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's were, it's impossible to become engrossed in the film.
Although Lindsay Lohan shares the screen with acting heavyweights Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman in "Georgia Rule," Lohan is the one who, for better and worse, grabs our attention.
Strutting around a small Idaho town in aviator sunglasses, stylish off-the-shoulder tops, skinny jeans and wedges, her party-girl character Rachel looks, sounds and acts like ..
. well, like Lindsay Lohan.
Rachel is constantly getting into trouble and in need of rescue.
She's too skinny, she rarely eats. There have been some substance abuse problems in the past, even though she's barely out of high school. And yet, despite the chaos that constantly surrounds her and her family, she always manages to look stunningly hip.
She even wears fake eyelashes at the breakfast table.
Then, of course, we all walk into "Georgia Rule" with the knowledge that this is the movie that earned Lohan an ugly, public reprimand from James G. Robinson, the Morgan Creek Productions CEO who wrote a letter scolding her for her absences during shooting.
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