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It was sort of okay. The girl develops a relationship with someone who she thinks is an author of a book. She tells her everything about her life. What it was like growing up. Her rotten drug addict father. The abusive boyfriend that she has. She moves out of the house and in with her brother, who is gay. She gets a job and becomes the babysitter for the boss, who tells her everything about his life. They get attracted to each other and then wind up sleeping together. The wife finds his cellphone and says things on it that gives it away that it really isn't him, but she pretends not to know and answers it anyway. Meanwhile she tells her anonymous friend everything. They finally get a chance to meet and the author rents two rooms next to each other near a bar. The author never shows up at the bar and when she goes to the room, the author tells her she's there. When she answers the door there's a bang and everything goes black. Why make a movie that doesn't have an ending? Leaving the viewer hanging? Movies like this just waste everybody's time. No wonder everybody gave it a one.

I won't bother with the story outline as it is readily available elsewhere on this site. The assistant to the main character has a date with a guy, drives miles to see him, and later when Maria asks him about him she just says he was a jerk without saying why. So that little trail ends. We finally get to meet the actress with the bad reputation, Jo Ann Ellis, who is to play the younger lesbian when the movie is almost over. There is some good interaction between her and the lead. . You'd think there would be more between her and the assistant Valentine, who really admires her, but no. In fact the assistant who played such a central role in most of the movie isn't even seen any more. The younger actress Jo-Ann Ellis is having an affair with a guy who just left his wife- who then attempts suicide. Another sub-plot that's thrown in for some reason that never gets fleshed out because it's too late in the movie. The main character has a slight disagreement with the younger actress on how to play a scene and then it's over, after the two main characters had been discussing the two main characters for most of the film, and we don't get to see anything of the play.

It's like there's a big buildup for something throughout the film and then nothing happens.

I'm not a fan of footage films but I didn't really take it that way at the beginning so I became interested. Someone has set up devices all through the guy's house and is watching everything he and his wife does. Then his wife is nowhere to be found and supposedly left a note saying she needs time to clear her head. I guess he drank a lot at one time because his sister-in-law is not too friendly toward him and mentions some things he did. He looks up an old friend that he turned against thinking it was him doing it as revenge. The cat he has growls at him and he thinks its a different cat. I'm surprised the cop doesn't think he's nuts. He does find a cat's head in his mailbox and puts it in his freezer but it's gone when the cop comes. It's really a waste of time because you never find out who is doing this to him or why. I hate movies that don't have a proper ending. That's why I rated it so low and added a spoiler alert.

Sort of interesting at the beginning but it's more like a collection of different scenes cobbled together. The spanish guy (brother-in-law?) was a kook that no one in their right mind would want to hang around with that comes out with some pretty crass comments. There's no chemistry between the husband and wife, but he seems to go out of his way to cater to her. He doesn't want to move but she wants a new house so she sees one she likes so he surprises her with the new house and that's it. Something is wrong with the eyedrops she's taking but that's as far as it goes. People here say the husband was messing with them but there is never any confirmation of that as far as I could see or confrontation. Their apartment gets broken into so you think the story is finally going somewhere and there is going to be some kind of twist but that's all that happened. She gets pregnant probably by the guy she cheated on her husband with but that's just another scene thrown in. Then the movie just ends and you say that's it and then kick yourself from having sat through it for so long.

It drags on and on. An enterprising young woman is trying to dig deep into a string of murders in a small town. But it's very slow paced. Supposedly a virus went a round the world after 9/11 making young people nuts, and this one guy keeps them in his barn and they just stand there all the time. Another guy related to him or something and doesn't talk throws rocks at the barn. At one point he finds a body in his shed so he calls the local cop. The cop is like, another one? And the guy who found the body tells the cop to clean up. No questions, no searching the area for clues?

I got tired and went to bed before the end.