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Best movie ever!
Kirandeep Yoder
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
janimitchell-07327
Just watch it , it is certainly one of the best programs to pop into your brain.
The Couchpotatoes
Again I was more then sad when this show got canceled when you see the amount of garbage series that go on and on forever. United States of Tara was a really good series, a mixture of comedy and drama. Toni Collette as Tara Gregson, a housewife with dissociative identity disorder, gave us a tremendous performance. All of the alters she played are a delight to watch. Her alter Gimme made me laugh out loud. The other actors are also contributing in making this series more then enjoyable to watch. I can't really fault anyone, I thought they were all superb in their roles. I truly enjoyed every second of this show and I am more then disappointed they didn't continue with it.
lalaland_08
I could totally relate to this show. I have a mother who has Borderline Personality Disorder (a person with BPD feels emotions 1000 times more intense than regular people, and will go into a meltdown mode when they can't handle the emotions).This show shed light on how hard it can be for a child of a person with a mental disease to live a daily life. I'm sure the show exaggerated DID symptoms, but the struggles Tara and her family were going through were very real. It can totally happen that the person with a mental disease can turn violent, during a 'phase', towards their spouse and even their children. As the child, you can get very confused about who the parent really is. For me, it was: is my mother the person who's very caring and loving? or is my mother the person that says hurtful words and sometimes become violent? And why can't I have a normal life? These are the struggles Kate and Marshall had everyday. We had to learn to stand on our own feet at young age because we couldn't really get much emotional support from our parents. We grow up thinking our childhoods were pretty normal, and don't realize they weren't until so much later. Some of us grow up thinking we're broken and at fault, and deserve unfair environment (abusive partner, abusive employer, or unkempt house). The children of a parent with a mental disease tend to grow up rather quickly. In the show, Tara is unbelievably lucky to have such a strong and supportive family. In real life, it's hardly so. My brother and I had moved out, but we still live fairly close (within 1 hour by car) to my parents. I still wonder if it's better for my dad to divorce and move on, and if it's better for my mom to go into a facility and get better.I thought Tara was very selfish by wanting her children to be with her. (which is very realistic BTW, the person with a mental disease often is very weak and desperately hangs on to any love/support they can get) The children have every right to declare their own space free from all the turbulence if they choose so.The show was incredibly healing and gave me hope. I could really relate to Kate and Marshall, and was relieved to know they too were having the same struggles I had, or still have to this day. I'm very happy that such show existed. I give my sincere thanks to the producers of this show.
copperncherrio
Very much like Nurse Jackie, season one starts with a likable main character that has an interesting problem (In Tara's case, she's has multiple personalities), who is surrounded with lovable or at least likable minor characters. We feel distant towards the title character but still is fond of her despite her unconventional personality.In Tara's case, we love all her personalities except her real one. So everything was just fine and dandy, and she has the most understanding husband in the world, Max (who's also the man who was too good for Carrie in Sex and the City: Arian), until she turned bitch face. She became unreasonable and hate-able, and this time it wasn't her other personalities that got in the way of her life, rather it was her original personality. I would have given the show a higher rating if it was only season one, but this title character Tara has no excuse to be a bitch when her family is overly understanding of her.Despite those problems, her sister's character Charlmane (who I detested in season 1) has grown into someone we actually understand. The kids are likable, and surprisingly stable considering their mother's inconsideration towards their life. Her alternate personalities actually help her children, but it's her real one that is menace to her family life.
