It is unfortunate that a director feels the need to play the audience with gimmickry to make his point. I felt that the cleverness in toying with the "Urban Legends" (hence the nomer) is undermined by the application of device and gimmick to be sure to drive home his point. "Sure to be a hit with the art house/festival audience" must have been in this director's mind: The same effect could have been accomplished without toying with the viewer. It takes 1/3 of the film to discover that you care what is happening to these characters and find out that a finely acted and written film is unfolding before you. Flashbacks and imagination works well in places and a solid performance is turned n by Dan Futterman, although the whole characterization is not quite carried out as far as it could have been if the time were spent on this instead of gimmickry.
