There’s a summary moment perhaps midway through Tallulah that’s funny and telling and, upon contemplation, poignant. Ellen Page, as the vagabond title character, has just breezily made a wretched mess of the living room of an upscale New York apartment living room belonging to her elegant, not-quite-mother-in-law Margo (Allison Janney). “Were you raised by wolves?” demands the despairing Margo. Tallulah, fervently: “I wish.”
Like that scene, Tallulah is calamitously funny, surprisingly touching, and streaked with debilitating melancholy as it contemplates motherhood, family, identity and forgiveness. And it sparkles like a diamond among the stale popcorn fare of television’s late-summer dog days. Television critic Glenn Garvin has more.
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