Floating Away

[1999, Movie]

Floating Away: Review

Calculated in its assaults on the heartstring and insistently faux-rural, this lachrymose dramedy features Rosanne Arquette as alcoholic mom Maurey, who battles her way back from the bottom of the bottle with the help of comic sidekicks and trumped-up character transformation catalysts. Maurey drowns her grief over her papa's death in demon rum, making it easy for her cheatin' spouse, Dothan (Greg Thirloway), to drain their joint bank account and take their baby to his parent... read more