Because I Said So (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Lehmann |
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Paul Brooks Jessie Nelson |
| Written by | Karen Leigh Hopkins Jessie Nelson |
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Diane Keaton Mandy Moore Gabriel Macht Tom Everett Scott Lauren Graham Colin Ferguson Piper Perabo Stephen Collins |
| Music by | David Kitay |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Edited by | Paul Seydor Troy Takaki |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $39 million |
| Box office | $69,485,490 |
Because I Said So is a 2007 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo, and Stephen Collins. It was released on February 2, 2007. The film received negative reviews from critics.
The movie focuses on Daphne (Diane Keaton), the loving but over-bearing mother of three girls, in particular Milly (Mandy Moore). Her other daughters Maggie (Lauren Graham) and Mae (Piper Perabo) are happily married, but Milly has recently broken up with her boyfriend, and Daphne is concerned.
Daphne fears that her daughter cannot find a good man on her own, so she secretly places a personal ad for her daughter. She finds a potential candidate, Jason (Tom Everett Scott), and tries to orchestrate a chance meeting of the two. The plan seems flawless until Milly finds her own date, guitarist Johnny (Gabriel Macht), who happens to be a candidate Daphne rejected before. Milly is unaware of her mother's scheming and begins relationships with both Jason and Johnny at the same time, with neither aware of the other.
Inevitably, this double-dating takes its toll and Milly becomes estranged from both Jason and Johnny. In Jason's case, it is because she discovers Daphne's scheming. Meanwhile, Daphne stumbles upon her own perfect match after being alone for many years and begins to challenge her search for the perfect match for Milly. Milly also realizes she has a choice to be the daughter her mother wants her to be, or to be the woman she wants herself to be. Choosing the latter, which comes with a row with her mother, leads her to reconcile with Johnny, a relationship Daphne has realized she should have tried to orchestrate in the first place.
The film has a marketing tie-in allowing customers to buy panties with different sayings from the movie.
In its first weekend of release, the film placed second in total box office receipts. For the weekend of February 2, 2007, the film earned $13,022,000. As of April 5, 2007; its domestic gross was $42,674,040. According to Box Office Guru, "men showed practically zero interest in the Universal release. Studio research showed that 82% of the audience was female. 55% of the turnout was 35 or older. 83% was Caucasian."
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