{"id":1125,"date":"2016-09-20T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2016-12-16T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T01:43:56","slug":"the-meddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/09\/the-meddler.html","title":{"rendered":"The Meddler"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think of “meddlers” in a negative sense because that’s what I’ve come to think about meddling.<\/p>\n

I observe that there seems to be different kind of meddlers. \u00a0One meddler advises someone on what they should do, which makes the other person feel their life is terrible.<\/p>\n

Another meddler just hangs around and clings to the other person. They would help just to be involved in the person\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

I think of a meddler as someone who interferes in other people\u2019s lives. In The Meddler<\/em> (2016, USA) there seems to be an underlying cause.<\/p>\n

Marnie’s (Susan Sarandon) “meddling” is more like she needs to connect with a human being after being widowed. So she reaches out.<\/p>\n

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Susan Sarandon (Pictured), plays a “meddler” in The Meddler. (Image sources via google images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marnie, “the meddler”<\/h4>\n

In The Meddler<\/em>, Marnie will do anything to get into her daughter\u2019s life, to talk, to hang out. She\u2019s like desperate.<\/p>\n

Her daughter Lori is involved in the television industry and is trying to concentrate on her work. Lori is often angry at her mother\u2019s advances.<\/p>\n

But there seems to be an underlining cause, so says a therapist of Lori\u2019s. \u00a0Marnie\u2019s replacing the gap left in her life after being widowed.<\/p>\n

But I saw beyond this so-called meddling and the therapist’s comments. Marnie is someone needing to connect with her daughter.<\/p>\n

If her daughter won\u2019t budge, she may just need to connect with someone else.\u00a0Lori pulls away from Marnie because she has her life to focus on.<\/p>\n

Marnie manages all right despite Lori being the big thing in her life.<\/p>\n

Marnie gets into helping out with a wedding among other things and meets a guy in New York who is a retired policeman and rides a Harley. Their relationship is drawn out and takes it time. It\u2019s \u2018mature\u2019, which is good.<\/p>\n

Writer\/director of The Meddler<\/em> Lorene Scafaria does not take her meddler negatively, and played by Susan Sarandon, \u201cthe meddler\u201d is likeable and Sarandon brings heart and subtle pain to the role.<\/p>\n

In The Meddler<\/em>, don\u2019t expect intense \u2018sword play\u2019 between meddler and other persons. It\u2019s a comedy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Meddler<\/em> has been released to DVD on September 6, 2016, in the U.S.A.<\/p>\n

Starring Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, and J.K. Simmons<\/p>\n

Warnings–contains brief profanity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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