After her parents' death in an airplane crash, Phoebe is raised by her wealthy but narcissist grandmother Co-Co and a nanny, Zelly.

In the end after Co-Co fires Zelly, Phoebe finally puts her foot down and stands up for herself and calls her out on her abusive behavior.

[5] It's heartfelt, and marked by some devoted work, but ... Rathborne hasn't yet learned how to let the really powerful stuff boil up implicitly from beneath the surface.

Here, everything is on the surface, rather flatfootedly and awkwardly laid out, with clunky establishing speeches and pointers that deflate whatever mystery and tension lies in the material.

[6] Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, felt that the film did not work in cinematic terms, and that the story would have been better served as a novel.