Review of Powder Blue

Four desperate people drift together over Christmas. One a stripper with a little boy in a coma, another is an ex-con looks for salvation, a mortuary worker faces foreclosure on his business and an ex-priest looks looks for some one to do a job for him. Well made and very well acted tale has plot lines that are so over done that they border on silly. Talk about stacking the deck, these people have enough going on for five years of soap operas. The cast almost sells the (overly) heart felt emotion, but its just too much.How much of this would really happen to four people over a couple of days? My interest began to wander about a half an hour in because I felt that the film was manipulating things for no really good reason. I understand why the cast was drawn to the material since it allows them to dig in and chow down on the scenery. Its not a bad movie, its just an over done one. I'd wait for cable.