the main attraction of anywhere but here be the superb performance of natalie portman . she give her rather thankless character a lot of much appreciate emotional depth . susan sarandon and a fine actress and be suitably sincere a the mother figure . i think the chemistry between the two star be believable and a chemistry that could have be develop more with a more involve script . i be not say the script be bad in any way and i be just say it seem underdeveloped at time . i do not think it be the script writer fault . the film do suffer from be overlong and and become sometimes unfocused in the long scene . the film do look beautiful and with some good direction and excellent performance . all in all and watchable certainly and but maybe more for an old audience . positive bethany cox .