When
Leann Hunley is doing her most dramatic speech, on the patio at breakfast, she keeps shaking her head yes and no each time she makes an affirmative or negative statement, respectively. This is an acting crutch that students are taught to drop in acting 101. It's a self-soothing body language to help the actress convince herself (and the audience) of her lines, or to help her add emotion to it; but it comes across as contrived, because people do not do that in real life. In the industry, it's called "playing it to the gallery", as in not-so-subtly telling the audience that they are convinced of the truth of their lines, but it takes the viewer out of movie magic and the actor out of movie "truth" or "realism" and into contrived acting,.