There was nothing heart warming about this movie. The mother was completely controlling, unhealthy, and unstable. The young couple would have been endearing without her. I have several children in the same age range as the daughter, and if you haven't already raised them right, you never will. They will also never grow up if you never let them. If they need your help, they ask for it. The daughter lost the happy, precious time she would have had with the lovely, earnest young man if the mother hadn't been completely selfish, protecting her own feelings instead of nurturing those of her daughter.