what really amaze me about this film be that it ring so false . first of all and who in the late 80 ( when the film take place ) live like this family . a college professor wouldn not make enough money to support the lifestyle i saw on the film . hence and he and his stay home wife would be plague by financial woe and especially when she get cancer . second and streep be my age and and most woman and particularly in her class ( educate and white and well off ) experience the feminist movement . yet this woman seem oblivious to her anachronistic behavior . i actually felt that she be a very controlling woman who keep her husband an emotional child by take care of his every need . the fact that so many people be move by the film be amaze . i have admire carl franklin film in the past and and i actually like meryl streep and but gad and what a manipulative and lying film this be .