Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.

• DirectorWayne Wang
• Release12 November 1999
• Genre
  Drama / Comedy
• Duration1h 54m
• Budget$23,000,000
• Revenue$18,653,615
• Rate
  

  6.048
  279 reviews
• Productions

  Fox 2000 Pictures, 20th Century Fox