Plods along, never catching dramatic fire, sometimes suffering from amateurish acting and often relying on its intrusive and treacly music to impart mood and rhythm.
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L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
An exhaustingly melodramatic yarn...a sorely misguided attempt at tender, heartfelt realism, given a WB-glossy sheen and saddled with a script in which every line is the single most hackneyed thing the character could possibly say.
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Village VoiceDennis Lim
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Denying Reality, more like. John Keitel's first feature is impossibly naive, even as smoothed-over coming-out tales go.