Stepmom is a 1998 comedy-drama film directed by Chris Columbus and starring Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, and Ed Harris.The film was successful.Sarandon won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress and Harris won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor Jackie and Luke Harrison are a divorced couple that are struggling to raise their children, Anna and Ben , happy with this sudden change of lifestyle. This is far from easy, as Luke, an attorney, is living with his new girlfriend Isabel , a successful fashion photographer several years his junior. Isabel... tries very hard to make Anna and Ben feel comfortable and happy with her, but Anna repeatedly rejects her overtures while Ben, who is generally kind to Isabel, adds extra complication with his mischievous nature. Isabel behaves with contempt tempered by caution around Jackie, believing she overcompensates for her divorce by spoiling her children. Conversely, Jackie, a former publisher turned stay-at-home-mom, gives Isabel a cold reception, seeing her as an overly ambitious career woman.
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| Release date: | December 15, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Chris Columbus |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 124 Minutes |
| Producer: | Wendy Finerman, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, Michael Barnathan |
| Editor: | Neil Travis |
| Music by: | John Williams |
| Cinematography: | Donald McAlpine |
| Screenplay by: | Georgianne Levangie, Ronald Bass, Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson, Steven Rogers |
| Estimated budget: | $50,000,000 |