Cannes Film Festival 2013

Best and Worst of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival: 'Shame,' 'Your Sister's Sister,' 'Wuthering Heights'

Where do ''Ides of March,' 'The Raid,' 'Twixt' fit in?

Worst: "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding"

Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Chace Crawford, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Nat Wolff
Why: An estranged daughter (Keener) drags her two teenage kids (Olsen, Wolff) to Woodstock to hang with their hippie grandmother (Fonda).  In the course of a few hours the fresh air of Upstate New York is doing wonders as everyone has a new romantic interest (mostly schemed by grandma).  The entire picture feels like a rejected pitch from the mid-90's (Paramount or Miramax would have made this in a second) and it's just not funny or even engaging.  Fonda tries, but Keener is so miscast the entire picture is a complete and utter misfire.  It's not even suitable fodder for Lifetime, WE or OWN.

- Gregory Ellwood

Photo Credit: BCDF Pictures

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