This film about bereavement is worth catching for its best moments.

Chief among these are stepmother Kathleen Turner's attempts to reach out to her ex-husband's daughter.

She's one of four women on whom the film focuses following the sudden death of the husband of one (Elizabeth Perkins), whose sister (Gwyneth Paltrow), friend (Whoopi Goldberg) and stepmother (Kathleen Turner) all rally round.

Good performances, but a moderate, not-of-this-world script. There's a debut for Jon Bon Jovi as the painter who lays the winsome widow, and an unbilled appearance by Peter Coyote as Goldberg's husband.