-- Synopsis; more about Georgia Rule --

Three generations of top actresses unite in a film from director Garry Marshall (Beaches, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride) about the power of redemption, freedom in forgiveness and unbreakable bonds of motherhood-Georgia Rule.

Rebellious teenager Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) screams, swears, drinks and is-in a word-uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lily’s (Golden Globe winner Felicity Huffman) San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she’d never return…her own mother’s Idaho farm.

Matriarch Georgia (two-time OscarR winner Jane Fonda) is not your typical sweet and doting grandmother. She lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules, demanding anyone who shares her home do the same-God comes first and hard work comes a very close second. Now saddled with raising the young woman, it will require each patient breath she takes to understand Rachel’s fury.

But as Rachel succumbs to her summer of misery and shakes up the tiny Mormon town, Georgia notices something is changing within her granddaughter. Given structure and responsibilities, Rachel is letting her guard down and learning compassion.especially for her mother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that-regardless what happens-the ties that bind can never be broken.

-- Trivia; tidbits about Georgia Rule --

Lindsay Lohan received a warning letter from the studio’s CEO James G. Robinson (Morgan Creek Productions) for her lack of professionalism. The letter was later released to the media and directly noted Lohan’s “discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional” conduct and went on to say her actions were those of a “spoiled child” which “has endangered the quality of this picture.” Robinson also threatened to sue the 20-year-old star if she continued to delay production.

Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title ‘Family Law’.

The boat across the street from Georgia’s house was deliberately put there to hide the neighbor’s house during filming.

Lindsay Lohan’s hair is wrapped in a towel when Georgia comes to confront her. The scene was re-shot after Lindsay was already preparing for her next movie and her hair was dyed black. You can see some of the dark hair underneath the towel.

Felicity Huffman got so physical in her car fight scene with Cary Elwes that she broke the windshield, so when the car pulled over they filmed it from behind as they both get out.

While the story takes place in Idaho, all filming was done in California, mostly in the San Fernando Valley in the towns of Santa Paula, Monrovia and Chatsworth. They painted Idaho on the train and local buildings/signs.

Lindsay Lohan originally wanted her character to be walking barefoot down the road in the film’s opening sequence. The temperature was 110 degrees and the road was too hot for her feet without shoes.

Director Garry Marshall had film rights to the story for ten years before he could find a studio willing to make it. The was the lowest budget and least amount of filming days he ever shot a movie in.

CGI was used to show the beautiful mountains behind Harlan’s fishing lake and the town picnic. They also used CGI to add trees to the barren hills behind the picnic.

Lindsay Lohan’s character (Rachel) is attending Vassar College in the fall. Jane Fonda attended Vassar College in real life.

-- Goofs; can you see the goofs for Georgia Rule --

Factual errors: The Idaho license plates on the vehicles in the film have an incorrect format. Standard Idaho license plates begin with a two digit number/letter combination identifying the county where the vehicle is registered (i.e. 1A – for Aida county, Boise area). The plates in the film do not use this format.

Revealing mistakes: Rachel slides off her panties while trying to seduce Harlan, and when she offers to let him “touch it”, she parts her legs slightly and it can clearly be seen that she’s wearing another pair of panties.

Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, Rachel lies down in the shade of a billboard on the side of the road. When they cut to the wide shot the shadow of the billboard is on the opposite side so Rachel is in sunlight. This might have symbolized the passing of time, but in the next shot, when Harlen comes to wake her, she is clearly in the shade again.

Continuity: When Rachel visits Georgia for the first time, she has rather worn off reddish nail polish. When she wakes up in the morning on the couch, obviously zoned out because of all the walking, without time to do much about her appearance, she has a professional looking French manicure. In the next scene she has red nail polish again.

Continuity: When Lilly returns to Idaho to confront Rachel, the wide shot shows her parking crooked, then the tire close up shows perfectly straight parking that is one inch from the curb. The wide shot of Lilly leaving the car shows the car parked crooked and the back tire about 6 inches from the curb.

Continuity: The flowers in front of Georgia’s home change. The first several scenes show her planting vibrant colors with many yellow and pink flowers. Later scenes only have pale purple flowers in front of the house.

Continuity: On the first morning Rachel is in her grandmother’s house, her grandmother is having her breakfast alone. The scene clearly shows a book with a blue picture on the cover kept on the corner of the table. Just then Rachel enters with the very same book in her hand and keeps it on the same spot.

Continuity: When Rachel is sitting on the reception desk in Simon’s office for the first time, her white shirt collar alternates between being straight up and then lying down flat under her hair.

Continuity: In the scene where Lilly is making out with Simon, she has a light brown quilted purse slung over her right shoulder. At one point, the purse disappears completely only to reappear in the next take.

Continuity: When Georgia is in the kitchen at breakfast time with Harlan and Rachel, she sits down at the table and sets down a plate with two well-cooked pancakes in front of her. In the following shots, the pancakes not only change position without Georgia touching them, but are now more lightly cooked.

Revealing mistakes: in the scenes where it is raining you can clearly see the rays of the sunlight going through the trees and on buildings.

Errors in geography: in several scenes when in Idaho the hills in the background are southern California hills.

-- Quotes; relive your favorites quotes for Georgia Rule --

Harlan: You’re a dangerous girl, aren’t you?
Rachel: It depends on what you define as dangerous.
Harlan: Safer to get thrown from a horse.
Rachel: But you don’t have to brush me or feed me after riding me.

Harlan: You have to go with me to talk to June. I want to tell her in person.
Rachel: Tell her what?
Harlan: That we have to get married.
Rachel: What?
Harlan: It’s the only way God will forgive us!
Rachel: Oh my God, Harlan, I gave you a blow job!
Harlan: [suddenly embarrassed] Um, thank you for breakfast, Miss Georgia. Rachel, I’ll see you in the truck.
Rachel: [to her grandmother, exasperated] No good deed goes unpunished!

Rachel: Surprise. Saddling up your truck?
Harlan: Now I had it figured that you’d done away with Simon, buried his body and taken off for the city with his cash and car.
Rachel: And leave you alive?
Harlan: Just how disturbed are you?
Rachel: I prefer “unique.”