Everyone probably has a Marnie Minervini somewhere in their life. That’s the character Susan Sarandon plays in the appropriately named The Meddler which opens Friday from Sony Pictures Classics after ...

The perfect Mother’s Day movie arrives this weekend, and no, it’s not necessarily the film with the same name as the holiday. Lorene Scafaria’s “The Meddler,” starring Susan Sarandon as the meddler in ...

Sarandon plays the role of a widow who follows her daughter to Los Angeles. — -- After five Academy Award nominations and a big win for "Dead Man Walking," Susan Sarandon is still dominating the ...

For a movie so conventional in its generational humor, “The Meddler” has some first-rate incidental jokes — throwaways that make its huggy conclusions much easier to tolerate. For instance, why does a ...

Susan Sarandon creates a character of many vibrant layers in The Meddler. The writer and producer of this movie defied the odds in getting it made. The live discussion following my screening featured ...

The smooth, cozy charm of writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s “The Meddler” offers considerable seriocomic satisfaction in its story of a mother and a daughter, the meddler and the meddled with, ...

Watch a film clip for "The Meddler," starring Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, and J.K. Simmons. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Susan Sarandon is Marnie Minervini, a recent widow and the meddlesome mother ...

In Lorene Scafaria’s The Meddler, Susan Sarandon plays Marnie Minervini, a recent widow who moves from the East Coast to Los Angeles to “be near” (read, boss around) her daughter Lori (a very good, if ...