3/10
Good cast wasted on terrible writing
10 April 2006
I was extremely disappointed by this film. I thought the very able cast did the best they could with truly poor material. The film couldn't decide if it was a melodrama, a teen-coming-of-age story, a comedy, a satire of America's love of celebrity, a New-Age/M. Night Shyamalan sort of mystical thriller, or a "message" film, and this wide variance in tone really ruined it for me. I saw it in a packed-house screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival, and from comments overheard as we exited I assume I am in the minority here, but I really thought it was not worth my time or money. Cynthia Nixon and Michael Angarano, along with the two best-buds Matt Bush and Gideon Glick (who both, apparently, have limited screen experience so far), did excellent jobs of defining and delivering their characters. It's not their fault that those characters are inconsistent and stereotypical.
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