Daughter’s New Life Sounds Good,

So Mom Joins Her

To escape the confinement of family life back east, a young woman moves to Vancouver to be closer to a more relaxed atmosphere in Better Than Chocolate (1999). When she meets a hot young street artist, they decide to move into a sub-let flat together. She calls her sweater sets and pearls mother to tell her some of the news, and her mother — who is suddenly single — announces she’s coming out west with her teenage son for a visit. This is an OK structure for a sitcom, but this film is something wholly different as the daughter is gay. Instead of turning into some melodrama with lots of heartfelt speeches and bolts of understanding and stuff like that, director Anne Wheeler steps it up a notch to big-hearted comedy with a nice streak of fantasy and a message to just accept people for what they are and let them deal with the perils of love and sex on their own terms.

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