A sweet little film that suffers from sentimentality. The performances of Duvall, Ladd, and Dern are all excellent and I especially liked Ladd's quirky feminist humanist character.
I did NOT like the flashback wrapper. It was superfluous and useless. I also did not like the choices that were made as to what scenes were important for the plot. The way it was presented did not make for an interesting story. They had these terrific characters played by great actors and they did nothing with them.
And not to be picky, but the music was terribly distracting. I didn't particularly like the score. It was uninteresting and didn't add anything to the story - there's no room left for interpretation because of the drippy, syrupy music underlying the scenes.
I did NOT like the flashback wrapper. It was superfluous and useless. I also did not like the choices that were made as to what scenes were important for the plot. The way it was presented did not make for an interesting story. They had these terrific characters played by great actors and they did nothing with them.
And not to be picky, but the music was terribly distracting. I didn't particularly like the score. It was uninteresting and didn't add anything to the story - there's no room left for interpretation because of the drippy, syrupy music underlying the scenes.