It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

"THIS IS SO SAD" is a line spoken by Samantha Morton after a failed attempt of love making. I couldn't help but think she was talking about the movie. Asylum, best known for its low budget, badly written, badly produced, and badly filmed horror movies and mockbusters have made an attempt at making a dark comedy. They went out and spent the bucks to get some name actors for a change, sadly they gave Teri Garr a nonspeaking role.The description on the back of the box "...as Claire must decide weather (sic) to engage or pull away." Sadly, they must have outsourced the creation of the insert to some country where English is not the first language. Jason Patric plays an unlikeable character who has a passion for giving out tickets, berating the people, belittling his date, and masturbating to on-line porn. He meets his opposite in the equally dysfunctional Samantha Morton, whose life is so pathetic, she falls in love with a guy everyone hates.The love-making scenes are equally pathetic as neither partner is able to achieve satisfaction. I have to wonder what kind of relationship writer-director Cecilia Miniucchi has been involved, in order to be able to write about two unlikeable characters in such a sad, border-line humorous situation (If you see Cecilia, give her a hug.). Illeana Douglas plays the neighbor of Claire and is our "voice of reason" during this movie until she suggests a pajama party.Most of the humor is recessed. For instance, Claire mentions that you can meet people on the Internet. Jay responds to her remark as if she is making fun of him. Jay takes offense because he masturbates to Internet porn (who does that?) unknown to Claire at the time, or Claire's inability to wear the proper undergarments for her fancy red dress. The scenes between Claire and Jay, at times, makes one feel uncomfortable. Well, maybe not at times, but all the time.Does LA really give out parking tickets at night and on Christmas? Or was that supposed to be a joke too? The movie contains bad language (Jay likes the f-bomb),sexual language, bad sex scenes, some minor Internet nudity flashes, and vanishing acting careers. Sadly, one of best films produced by Asylum.

This is a low budget Independent film that wowed critics at The Sundance Festival in 2007.It stars Jason Patric as Jay, a very strict Traffic warden who is in fact downright rude and also prone to violence and lying about the people he has booked. He provokes them and thinks his uniform is enough to see him through. In an early scene he books his own son.Claire played by British actress Samantha Morton is a new warden, good hearted in nature but lonely living with her disabled mother.Both characters go on a date and seem to be attracted to each other, although what Claire sees in Jay, no one knows. He is rude, obnoxious and tells her she is chubby. The fact that he has a very distant relationship with his son who is a musician might give a clue that he has issues, he mentions of his relationship in his college days which detoured his life. Jay is also addicted to online porn, more so than the normal red blooded male.The movie, filmed in sunny LA but set in Christmas is unusual with lead actors who are known names and features good acting. Jason Patric who was set for stardom in the late 80s and early 90s might be too good looking to play a loner with relationship issues. Samantha Morton looks too thin to be someone with a fondness for M&Ms.The film has its little twists and turns and although slight it keeps your interest.

Samantha Morton plays an unmarried meter maid who gets mixed up with Jason Patric another parking officer. Both are severely wounded individuals and their pairing makes for some darkly comic twists and turns.This is an often odd romantic comedy as the two characters come together and go apart and generally change as the result of the experience. The wrong sort of quirky I found it annoying more than anything else with complications seeming to pop up because they would make the story stand out rather than because its the natural progression of things. For me both of the leads are not particularly appealing and what they do seems more to come from left field then reality (Had they been real I think it could be argued they should be locked up). I won't deny its not a funny film, but I didn't much enjoy it.

I got the opportunity to attend the Sundance Film Festival for the first time this year. There were a lot of films to choose from and its difficult to decide which ones to attend. I had heard this movie was a dark comedy, like a 'Your Friends and Neighbors', which I thought was hilarious, so I went to check it out. It ended up being probably my favorite film of the festival. It had me cracking up the whole time and was so unexpected. It was one of those great experiences where you go in without expectations and leave the theater as if you discovered something. I'm happy I got the chance to see it.