pixieart-58958 When I watched the preview I decided it would be worth a try and I'm glad I took the time. It is a rom-com with an all star, all mature cast. But it is about more than romantic love. In fact, it is mostly about the love of family and friends. It makes you think about what constitutes a full life. It is about sticking by the people in your life life even when they are messy and need different things. Romantic love is only a fraction of the experience. And that is the point. I recommended it to a couple of my friends and can't wait to talk to them about it.

lavatch By the end of "All I Wish," the viewer has the feeling of having just watched a play in the theater that is overly declamatory and phony. The film's structure is that of a sequence of birthdays in the life of a middle-aged woman. The action is punctuated by a series of soliloquys spoken by the principal characters, as they stare straight into the camera and wax philosophical about their pretentious and rather ordinary lives. But the curtain call for this stagey experience leaves an audience slack-jawed because the work was so bad.The film was intended as L'chaim, or a toast to life! We learn from the bonus segment of the DVD that the screenplay was twelve years in the making until Sharon Stone took charge of Susan Walter's script and evidently changed the romantic concept from young love to that of a pair of middle-aged characters. Stone's character Senna is described as "a raisin in the sun," an odd image drawn from Lorraine Hansberry's famous play about a hardscrabble black family in Chicago in the 1950s. By contrast, the characters of "All I Wish" are carefree Los Angelenos, moving in the circles of wealth and fashion in what appears to be the 1980s (no cell phones). As the relationship of Senna and Adam develops, it was difficult to find it plausible that the erratic, creative fashion designer would connect emotionally with a fastidious attorney. The relationship never seemed credible, and it was a stretch to think that the act of marriage would be so significant to Senna that it would tear the couple apart. It was just too hard to find anything that these two characters had in common.Much of the dialogue seemed forced and artificial with lines like "We all feel inadequate. It's the American way." The most memorable role was that of Senna's mother, as performed by Ellen Burstyn. In the DVD bonus track, Sharon Stone correctly identified the "luminous beauty" of Burstyn that she is able to elicit in almost any role.From the DVD interview segments, the film was described by the writer-director as a "second act romantic comedy." Unfortunately, both the romance and the comedy were flat. And by the end of the second act, there was not a wet eye in the house at the final curtain.

d81165 Seriously? The movie is somewhat boring, and cheesy.

graceoverpressure-18108 Thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie as the older woman I am...Though I think Sharon Stone is 60 now and was playing a woman the age of 46 to start out with - a stretch, unless of course YOU ARE THE BEAUTIFUL, TALENTED, FUNNY SHARON STONE!Honestly, the movement of being older, unmarried and close to her mother was an interesting plot in itself. The fact she was "off the grid" as a woman to some degree lent fun and interest to the movie, especially as she slowly but surely was able to resurrect her life and succeed financially. She pulled it off very nicely in my opinion. I'm no "spring chick" either, but I saw the "chapters" of her mid-life for what they were; spliced with humor between her originality if not funkiness and her relationships with her best friend, her mother (also a bit of a diva) and the initially "stuffed shirt" lawyer who thawed out very well with little effort along the way. Sick to death of the cheap, mundane plots that are merely violent; oversexed and repetitious. Now THAT'S a REAL bore! This sunny picture gave me what I needed and wanted out of this woman's life: A JOURNEY, humor, tenacity, renewal and loving relationships, her Mom, her best friend, her guy, because frankly, that really is? WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT. Kudos Ms. Walters and all for making a fun, E N T E R T A I N I N G movie...For that is SUPPOSE to be? Much of what Hollywood is about - entertainment! Y'all "hit the mark" here.