i really enjoy this movie because kathleen turner and john water just let loose with the demented psychotic energy of a parent who take many legitimate parental urge to the next level or maybe the next 5 level . she be protective and proactive and and supportive where her family be concern and just a bit more so than be good for her or the rest of the world . the movie be funny and turner be superb . the various strategems she use to distract witness at her trial be deliver with the precision of a knife and she do more acting in the defendant chair than most actor manage in a typical hollywood flick today . i give it a 7 rather than something high because the action around her be okay but deliver more a a set up for her various exercise in family value and and the plot itself doesn not seem drive by anything other than her proclivity for a particular problem solve approach . but it be a very entertaining film and though i wouldn not watch it with a kid under the age of 15 and however jade by the medium today youth may seem to be .