A story about husbands, wives, parents, children and other natural disasters.
Grace King Bichon (Julia Roberts) has the perfect life...
Or at least that's what she's always thought - until she sees her husband, Edward “eddie” Bichon (Dennis Quaid), giving an unknown young woman a passionate kiss on his lunch hour. Then, suddenly, everything about her picture-perfect existence begins to look very different to her.
She reconsiders her traditional southern-gentry family - her strong-willed father, Wyly King (Robert Duvall), who has built a horse-breeding empire by making sure his word is law - her gracious, genteel mother, Georgia (Gena Rowlands), who has quietly acquiesced to Wyly's will for decades - her feisty sister, Emma Rae (Kyra Sedgwick), who's the one person in the family who sees things as they really are - her young daughter, Caroline (Haley Aull), already an expert horsewoman, but determined to ride a challenging, bigger horse in the upcoming grand prix competition - and of course, Eddie, Grace's university sweetheart, whose gradual disenchantment with their marriage has been all but invisible to Grace. Until now.
Unce, Grace moved through her life almost automatically, doing charity work, being the dutiful daughter, caring for her husband and child, and assuming that everything would continue on as painlessly as life had always seemed to do. But after Grace sees Eddie romancing another woman, she decides that all bets are off. She can look at her life any way she wants to.
And some changes are going to be made.
Special Agent Matti
Horses, romance and frilly white curtains. Something to talk about is a cross between The horse whisperer, A thousand acresRunaway bride and any film that can be described as a cross between three other films is doomed to mediocrity. A film should be about one thing, be it a person, the parent/offspring relationship or romance. Occasionally, a good film can cope with two different ideas as long as one of them is subservient to the other. Three ideas is just too many.
And.It doesn't help any when you fill said movie with bland American ideology, stereotypes and lighting. When will Hollywood learn that light isn't flat and that films don't have to be flat either. To say nothing of the make-up - if actors get any smoother they'll be mistaken for computer generated images.
There's a reason that you don't remember Something to talk about being at the cinemas: it wasn't. Let that be your guide.
MA 15+ (Low level coarse language)
101 minutes (1:41 hours)
DVD retail: 13 June 2001
DVD retail: 4 February 2002