Diane Keaton has some genuinely funny moments in this film. She plays her role to perfection as the over-protective and interfering mom with a big heart. The film is pretty well directed and the story of the mother trying to find a prospective husband for her daughter, so she doesn’t end up like herself, is interestingly told. However, it is in the language and sex areas of content that the film fails to make the grade as a family-friendly film. Couples have sex before marriage and there are many sexual innuendos in the film. One character dates two different men and has sex with both of them at different times. The language also goes overboard. It’s too bad. “Because I Said So” doesn’t, unfortunately, say the right things for families.