Oh, Sure: Her Best Friend Is Mom

Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times reviewed ‘Brave New Girl’, the ABC Family movie (Sunday at 8 PM ET/PT) executive produced by Britney Spears and her mother, Lynne. Stanley writes, “Not surprisingly, the film is a marketing venue for Ms. Spears’s music, though the sales pitch is laughably forced – her pop tunes are held up as the kind of inspirational leitmotif that emboldens deprived teenagers to dream and gives downtrodden single moms a jolt of confidence. But the plot also allows the two women to weave a fantasy of mother-daughter love that is smolderingly intense and noticeably at odds with the light, banal, after-school-special tone of the rest of the movie.” Read more.