Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy and most recently Mao’s Last Dancer) scored a coup by casting Jane Fonda as the boho grandma in the family drama, Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. The iconic Oscar winner retired from film in the ’90s and has been selective upon her return. But as felicitous as it might seem to have the infamous political activist play a latter-day hippie, unfortunately her character, Grace, comes off as a caricature in a Halloween costume rather than a fully realized role. That she grows pot, smokes it with her grandkids and entertains lovers isn’t nearly as shocking...  read more