This film is about as predictable and annoying a family drama as I've seen. The central characters are unsympathetic and uninteresting, the situation they find themselves in is one we've seen at least a dozen times before, the locale is trivial at best, but mostly boring - just what we need, another film set in small town America, a regionalism of less and less interest as the American population continues to become metropolitanized - and the filmmaker has gone to extremes to manipulate the audience through gratuitously dominating musical selections - I mean are we stupid or something, does the filmmaker not realize the audience gets it, that the pathos of a character visiting his mother's grave does not have to be hammered home with a grave selection by J.S. Bach, or does a scene in which an unmarried woman on the way to an assignation with a married man have be trivialized by a c&w selection. Irony this is not, heavyhanded it is. The structure of the film is flaccid at best, as scenes sort of stumble along . I wish I couId say the actors' performances were wasted, but I can't. I do feel I wasted both my time and money here.
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