![]() She learns some secrets and reveals others, causing rifts among the group. She asks endless questions about her daughter. ![]() It's up to him to call Sara's overbearing mother Natalie (Keaton), who takes the call on her car phone and almost ends up dead herself when she loses control upon hearing the news.Ī few days after the funeral, to which Natalie does not invite the friends, Natalie shows up uninvited at the Hamptons house and quickly stirs up trouble with her many overlapping manias. Adam, on the other hand, walks away only slightly injured. No sooner do Adam and Sara drive off for a traditional first-night ice cream cone than their car is broadsided (rather spectacularly for a cable movie), and Sara is killed instantly. Also in the group: Sara's school chums, Maddy ( Lauren German) and her husband Peter ( Josh Hopkins), along with their new baby. The core of the group is the enchanting Sara (Alex Davalos), the lifelong muse of her best friend, gay writer Adam ( Tom Everett Scott), who shows up with his boyfriend Shawn ( Chris Pine). A Diane Keaton star vehicle produced as a made-for-cable original, Surrender Dorothy is a pleasure for fans of the always interesting Keaton even if its roots as a chick-of-a-certain-age-lit novel sometimes show through.Īs a group of 30-ish friends gather Big Chill style for a month in the Hamptons, they can't know tragedy awaits.
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