watch cbs surrender and dorothy and i keep wonder why diane keaton would want to be in it ( not because it a television movie with the dearth of entice role for slightly old actress and it isn not any wonder why academy award win performer such a keaton turn to tv but because it offer no opportunity for keaton to shine ) . a single mother and grieve the sudden death of her twenty something daughter and impose upon and gradually become friend with the group of young people her daughter be close to at the time of her accident . adapt from the novel and this teleplay give u a group of self absorb character one would cross the street to avoid . aside from be coarse and dim and these phony people be incredibly unconvincing and a be the tidy scenario and the bungalow near the beach where the kid reside ( one young man and who wear muscle shirt to tell u he gay and hears diane keaton say and surrender and dorothy and actually asks and that from the wizard of oz and right . no and genius and it from citizen kane . ) . keaton may have want to do this material base on the subject matter of confront death . she try turn this distinctly unlikable woman into a shadow of her own personage ( lot of kooky outfit ) and but it doesn not sit well with the viewer since keaton have always be warmly likable and flexible in a flaky way . here and she a crazed harpy who doesn not learn many lesson on her journey of self discovery ( the movie quickly forget it about a dead young woman and become an odyssey for the nervous wreck of a mom and who appear to be an overage hippie who have never lose anyone close to her ) . this be the kind of film actor promote on talk show with the caveat and it should help a lot of grieve mother out there . i can not imagine it help anyone since it be intrinsically a downer and muddle and baffle . it derange .