By Daryl Bär.

When her husband tells her he wants a divorce, the ultra-conservative lawyer Diane takes her teenage son and daughter to visit her estranged hippy mother in Woodstock. Romances blossom, mother-daughter relationships are weathered and before the credits roll everything is resolved with a neat little bow on top.

Granted, not all films are created to challenge or make a statement but there is so little substance to Peace, Love & Misunderstanding that it’s a shame to see the likes of Elizabeth Olsen, Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener and Jeffrey Dean Morgan wasted on an such inert feature. Through the Nancy Meyers’esque haze and cliché-ridden plot there is absolutely nothing here to inspire or entertain. The opposing matriarchal dynamic has been done to death in dozens of movies far superior to this and the supposed dramatic highs and lows in the romantic threads just meander from scene to scene until the obvious eventual resolution.

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding is (at best) the kind of banal Hallmark movie you could screen in a retirement home, but even then I think that may be cruel to the elderly!

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