One expects a movie with an inspirational message, a cast containing two Academy Award winning actresses (Meryl Streep, Cloris Leachman) and a best actress nominee(Angela Bassett) to be something more than a series of `Hallmarck moments'. You know you are in trouble when a scene opens with the caption `Ten Years Later' and NONE of the female characters has aged. I expected some inventiveness from `horror' director Wes Craven; instead, I get `paint by the numbers.' Craven's only inventiveness occurs in a subplot left on the `cutting room floor' involving Streep recovering her youngest son's bicycle. At one point in the movie, Aidan Quinn says to Streep, `You know half of all marriages end in misery and divorce.' `Wrong,' I responded, `Half end in misery, the other half in divorce.' Was does it say about a movie's dialogue when your own wiseacre adlib is better than anything you heard in the film?
See this one for the music and the inspiration. There's simply not that much else to offer.
See this one for the music and the inspiration. There's simply not that much else to offer.