Garry Marshall, the tone-deaf sitcom veteran with the laugh-track touch, tackles two traumatic subjects here – alcoholism and sexual abuse – and the results are as icky and awkward as you might expect. Lindsay Lohan plays an unhinged nymphomaniac getting some tough love from her grandmother (Jane Fonda), a situation Marshall sometimes treats as comic and sometimes as sexy. Occasionally, the situation is given the seriousness it deserves, but these moments only make the rest of the film seem even more ghastly. This is so out of touch with its own subject matter that it’s offensive.
