In short, if you like bad movies or movies that receive undue critical acclaim, then this one is for you. The problem in the movie does not stem from bad acting, but from bad directing and a horrible screenplay. The entire script is contrived and the director does not know how to have his character's interact so it appears that they have chemistry. Also, whoever cast Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle as the young boy should be shot.
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Problem #1: How corny and romance-novelish is it for the protagonist and her soon to be lover to be blown together literally by a freak wind storm.
Problem #2: How formulaic is it for the forbidden lover to be a handsome french guy, schooled in the art of seduction. See any lame romance novel you've ever read that wasn't set in Texas. The guy's name should have been Jacque Cliche.
Problem #4: Um, I believe the screenwriter's message was sometimes people have affairs without anything being wrong with their relationships. I believe this is why the protagonist has an affair although we don't see anything quite wrong with her home life. Keeping this in mind, I think the screenwriter should not tackle stories about the human condition until he or she realizes that people have motivation's for everything they do, whether they realize it or not. To think people are inherently whimsical is not a mature assessment of the human condition. That being said, it is up to the screenwriter to show the movie watchers what the protagonist's motivation was whether the protagonist realizes it or not. This didn't happen.
Problem #5: The dialogue was bad.
Problem #6: I was prepared for all these sex scenes that were supposed to be really powerful. They could have been if there was sufficient chemistry to believe that the Diane Lang's character was actually having passionate sex with the french guy. I've seen more chemistry in a Cinemax soft porn. Just because she's doing her own nudity and protesting in cliche dialogue that she doesn't want to have sex, although she obviously does, does not make chemistry. We should feel that Diane Lange wants to get with Jacque Cliche for other reasons than a french accent, good looks, and a rugged/well-read poet/renaissance man thing going for him because that's been done to death.
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There was other obvious plot problems but I won't go into them. So if you don't mind all the stuff I mentioned, this film's a winner.
1 out of 10.
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Problem #1: How corny and romance-novelish is it for the protagonist and her soon to be lover to be blown together literally by a freak wind storm.
Problem #2: How formulaic is it for the forbidden lover to be a handsome french guy, schooled in the art of seduction. See any lame romance novel you've ever read that wasn't set in Texas. The guy's name should have been Jacque Cliche.
Problem #4: Um, I believe the screenwriter's message was sometimes people have affairs without anything being wrong with their relationships. I believe this is why the protagonist has an affair although we don't see anything quite wrong with her home life. Keeping this in mind, I think the screenwriter should not tackle stories about the human condition until he or she realizes that people have motivation's for everything they do, whether they realize it or not. To think people are inherently whimsical is not a mature assessment of the human condition. That being said, it is up to the screenwriter to show the movie watchers what the protagonist's motivation was whether the protagonist realizes it or not. This didn't happen.
Problem #5: The dialogue was bad.
Problem #6: I was prepared for all these sex scenes that were supposed to be really powerful. They could have been if there was sufficient chemistry to believe that the Diane Lang's character was actually having passionate sex with the french guy. I've seen more chemistry in a Cinemax soft porn. Just because she's doing her own nudity and protesting in cliche dialogue that she doesn't want to have sex, although she obviously does, does not make chemistry. We should feel that Diane Lange wants to get with Jacque Cliche for other reasons than a french accent, good looks, and a rugged/well-read poet/renaissance man thing going for him because that's been done to death.
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There was other obvious plot problems but I won't go into them. So if you don't mind all the stuff I mentioned, this film's a winner.
1 out of 10.