Come on, Douglas, off you go, bing bong bunk,” she says, dispatching the animal, all jolly hockey sticks. Her writing has been prolific, but never for public consumption until now, with the advent of her first book, Managing Expectations. She is raw, open, unflinching in her self-judgment but shows restraint and grace when describing others (the noticeable exception being how she eviscerates Harvey Weinstein in just a few sentences. Fans are more emotional when they see an actor trying NOT to cry then when they are actually crying. I read the book before I saw the movie and Usually I am disappointed by the movies if i read the book first.

When a strange man invited her into his poolside cabana with the warning about the “bad people” who might prey on a child alone, I wanted to scream at her failure to clock that he might be one of them. Minnie lives in California and London with her son, Henry, her boyfriend, Addison, and her dog, Bob. The front cover photo of her as a smiling child (failing to reflect the book's content of her as a sad, mean youngster) should have instead had the photo on the back cover of adult Driver at a steering wheel, because a number of significant stories revolve around her and a car. Unrepentantly tall, frizzy haired, a bit weird and clever, she was “our girl on the inside” for my generation of bookish girls. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site.

You mentioned wanting to publish the book before Mother’s Day—were you trying to make that deadline as a way to honor her? Despite having a house in the Hollywood Hills, Driver spends most of her time in a trailer park on a cliff overlooking the beach in Malibu, where she is the sort of well-known that makes her comfortable. She has been in a number of relationships, including ones with actors John Cusack and Matt Damon, who are both famous in their own right. If a celeb just "tells all" and "names names" they don't have to be good at either storytelling or writing - we just come by for the spew.

On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 44 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".A heartfelt and incredibly vulnerable collection of essays from Minnie Driver, detailing her tumultuous childhood sent away to boarding school and the ups and downs of her time in Hollywood. The film was released on video on demand as well as experiencing limited release by Lionsgate Premiere on April 6, 2018. I bet the stories she’d tell in private over a few martinis are way funnier and more shocking than the ones she has dished here.