 | 映画原題: Raising Helen [ 映画邦題: レイジング・ヘレン ] |  | | |  |  |  |  |
レイジング・ヘレン:2006年 ロードショー:Raising Helen 2004-05-28 Roadshow 
NYのモデル・エージェンシーで働く25歳のキャリア・ウーマン､ヘレン｡
仕事も恋も第一流のセレブ｡
そんな自分の満ち足りた生活を満喫していた彼女が、
ある日突然3人の子供のママになる事に・・。(GAGA USEN:BRAND NEW LINE UP)
|  |  |  |  | | | |  |  | |  | Raising Helen : Hollywood Cinema Director : シネマ作品監督紹介 | | Raising Helen : Hollywood Actor [CAST・CREW] : 出演ハリウッド俳優(男優・女優・声優)&ミュージシャン・アーティスト紹介 | | Raising Helen : 本国映画ライターによる映画の内容 with イングリッシュ : English Description of Story | | | | | Amazon.com:Kate Hudson wrestles with unlikely motherhood in Raising Helen, a comedy directed with the smooth professionalism of Garry Marshall, the man who brought us such cinematic fairy tales as Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries. Helen (Hudson, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) is an adorable hipster whose swift rise up the fashion industry ladder gets sideswiped when she finds herself responsible for raising three children, left in her care by the untimely death of one of her sisters. It's a standard frivolous-girl-grows-up story with an uneven script, but solidly performed by Hudson, John Corbett (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), ever-sexy Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls), and especially Joan Cusack (In and Out, Addams Family Values), who takes an obnoxious, uptight suburban mom and makes her the movie's emotional core. It's a miracle of acting alchemy; Cusack is one of contemporary comedy's most crucial performers. --Bret Fetzer | | | | | | | |
| Raising Helen : 現地ハリウッド市民の評価 : 英語批評版 : Native Evaluation | | | | |  Quest for a decent script / 2005-11-19
I spent an unhealthy amount of time during the '70s and '80s sitting through more than my share of fair-to-middling Goldie Hawn movies. Now, several years removed, Kate Hudson picks up the gauntlet and gamely continues her mother's quest for a decent script.
Hudson (whose resemblance to Goldie is positively eerie) certainly possesses a winning personality. But her struggle to find a vehicle that properly showcases her talent is becoming a bit of a strain on moviegoers who desperately want to like her but aren't being offered a good enough reason to do so. (How long can anyone expect to coast on the goodwill generated by ALMOST FAMOUS?)
In the monumentally contrived RAISING HELEN, Kate finds herself the official guardian of two nieces and a nephew after a sister and brother-in-law are killed in an automobile accident. (The movie is being hyped as a feel-good family film, but can you imagine the trauma inflicted on a young viewer who's lost one or both parents? Thank you, Hollywood, for being so compassionate.) What follows is an allegedly heartwarming account of how the irresponsible-but-lovable Kate gets her act together and gives those kids a reason to smile again, dammit. But we've seen it all before-at least I have, in an era when Goldie Hawn's star sank under the weight of clichﾃｩd scenarios.
If nothing else, RAISING HELEN confirms one old clichﾃｩ: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
| | | | | | | | | | | |  Good For Family Viewing / 2005-11-17
Although pleasant and enjoyable: even charming at times, "Raising Helen" could benefit from serious trimming. Less would be better in her romantic adventures with the hockey playing pastor. It could also have benefited from better audio and a little more setting up before the car accident-the reasons for the deceased sister's decision to appoint Helen (who was a younger version of herself) as her children's guardian is one of the three coolest things about this movie and should have been set up better. Hint: it was because the sister had discovered that it isn't adults who create children; it's children who create adults.
The second cool thing is the scene where the three children are sitting together in the closet after the funeral. And the coolest thing is the first shoelace tying scene with little Abigail Breslin. That scene was done perfectly and will probably be the only thing I will think of whenever "Raising Helen" is mentioned. Abigail can do "serious" better than any actor/actress her age. Her real life brother, Spencer, was fine but once the director had cast him they should have modified his part and replaced all basketball references with something for which he is more physically cast.
I never even knew that Kate Hudson existed before seeing this movie; I probably have had her confused with Katie Holmes. Nothing I saw here will cause me to either seek out or to avoid her movies in the future.
My guess is the real target audience is teenage girls, who can relate to Helen's nightclub adventures and Audrey's coming of age stuff. Hayden Panettiere has grown up very nicely and is well cast as every parent's nightmare "too hot for her own good" teenage daughter.
The obvious comparison for "Raising Helen" is the more ambitious "Uptown Girls", viewers who enjoyed one will probably enjoy the other.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
| | | | | | | | | | | |  kate hudson best / 2005-11-04
i loved this movie kate gave her best performance an this movie keep up the good work | | | | | | | | | | | |  Awsome! / 2005-10-26
I loved this movie! It made me cry at times, but it has a happy ending! SOme people dont't like it, but I think you need to see it! | | | | | | | | | | | | Better than I expected / 2005-08-28
A tip: watch Raising Helen the first time by yourself. I bawled at several points during this movie and that surprised me because I usually don't do that. I like how Kate Hudson's Helen grows up during the movie, at first she is career-oriented and likes to party, but she ends up settled at the end. The two younger kids in this movie are adorable and the oldest would cause any parent anxiety. Joan Cusack and John Corbett turn in awesome performances as well, Joan with her trademark subtle humor and John as the sexy pastor of the kids school. One of the funniest parts is the Inter-Faith hockey league (whoever came up with the names was very clever) and Helen's neighbor in Queens (and her baseball bat). All of the characters are well-written and the story really is touching, I felt a connection to all of the characters. | | | | | | | | | |
