Janet McTeer recieved an Oscar nomination for her perfromance in this film that made it's debut at the Sundance Film Festival a couple of years back.

In Tumbleweeds, McTeer plays a southerner who moves whenever she gets herself into a little bit of emotional trouble. This does not go over well with her daughter (Kimberly J. Brown).

This film bares major resembelences to Anywhere But Here, a film with Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman that came out earlier this year. Surprisingly, I liked Tumbleweeds a little bit better, and I think it's because of a more winning chemistry between McTeer and Brown. Sarandon did a good job and Portman was spectacular, but McTeer and Brown seem to have naturalism on there side.

The real revelation in Tumbleweeds is Brown. She gives an honest, and refreshing performance as a young girl on the verge of womanhood. There's also a stunning performance from the underarated Jay O. Sanders as one of McTeer's co-workers.

Tumbleweeds is a film about finding a place where you belong. It's also a great story about the love between a mother and a daughter. A nice change of pace from the usual bickering were used to seeing on the big screen. The Next Best Thing is a big mess full of attractive and talented people. It's a stunningly displeasing movie complete with a pretentious walking-off-into-the-sunset ending.