Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married

A drug addict being released after a long time in rehabilitation - sounds familiar??
Remember Sherrybaby??
Exactly!!
Agreed that Anne has showed some real guts to accept this role and finally dared to step out of her goody-cindrella-girl image.
And agreed that she has done a commendable job in this movie, but then right from beginning of this movie where she gets released from the rehab center till the point where she attends a group discussion and then ends up having rough sex with one of the fellow attendees, you cant help to remember Sherrybaby.
But wait, things now change. We have a wedding of elder sister coming up. So, the script suddenly turns into 'Meet the parents', where you don't need some Ben Stiller for any nuisance value, but the return of anne is enough to do the honors.
As we proceed in to the film, we see the love and despair and struggle and bonding in a family and that finally helps you move out of establishing analogies with other films.
I would say its a brilliant piece of work, where every member of the family gets exposed, and encounters situations which test their love for other members of family and their willingness to accept follies of their own and others.
But then, I must say, it would not have been possible by a solo strong performance of Anne alone. All the actors and actresses around her have also put in best of their efforts to make this film a success. And the music playing constantly in the house, it just elevates each mood so much.
I have to say this is the how a good team can make a ordinary, same-old-script look so good, as to get recognition from the academy.
so, where did Anne lose her points??
firstly, in her selection of a role which was already played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Ofcourse, you may justify that she is different from sherrybaby because she doesnt get molested by any family member in her childhood, but only uses such tales to fool in anonymous confession games at rehab center; and that her burden is not her unability to raise a child due to her addiction, but drowning of a child due to her addiction, but then does it matter??
She loses on innovation factor anyways.
secondly, as i mentioned earlier, all the family tensions, all the laughters the family has and all the tears they have, these come to you as a group effort. you dont see Anne single handedly controlling all the emotions and sentiments of herself, and of her audience. you cry with her over her agony, but you also cry with her sister and her father. You feel hopeful for her, and also sympathetic for her father, and joyful for her sister and happy for her brother-in-law, for being such a kind person.
so, its like the earstwhile south african cricket team, where Kallis may have perfomed brilliantly in a game, but there were also Jonty Rhodes and Shaun Pollock and Alan Donald, all of them putting in their best effort, making it a team win.
In a nutshell, yes the movie was good, yes the Anne Hathaway was different and was good, but she needs a little more than that, she needs a script she can own and rule and i am hopeful, she will get it someday soon.