A highly entertaining and well written romantic comedy with a reassuring message to women of "love yourself now, not five pounds from now." Woman loses man, woman wants new man to love, but wait! What she really wants is to love herself first, and that's a journey "Suzanne" takes us on. It's a necessary journey full of confusion, shame, discovery, and the laughter is healing. The attempts by "Suzanne" to mold herself into popular standards of beauty are laugh out loud, but they mirror what is too rampant in our culture, and that is women who feel "less than" if their weight is "more than" or their looks don't measure up. Cathryn Michon writes, directs and stars in this great film with an ensemble that is funny, smart and engaging. A terrific cast showcases the talent of women in front of and behind the camera. Well worth watching again and again. Suzette Martinez Standring
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