Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good movie but grossly overrated

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Blistering performances.

This is a truly delightful comedy romp with a stunningly funny performance by the highly gifted Emily Watson. In her first funny role Watson is simply a delight and utterly brilliant. Her delivery and timing are impeccable and in this rare goofball role, she proves that comedy is certainly not beyond her talents. In fact, she may be one of the most incredibly funny women to appear in motion pictures in the last 25 years. What she does here is in Gracie Allen territory and she absolutely does justice to that great lady's legacy. A superb dramatic actor of limitless technical abilities and overwhelming emotional range, with two Oscar nominations for Best Actress, now Emily Watson becomes the queen of screen hilarity with this unforgettable comic turn. Don't miss it!

When I first saw the lineup of actors in this film, I was thinking, "How bad can it be"? Well, I found out. It wanders all over the place and wastes some "major" talent who all fell by the wayside trying to react to the writer-director's desires. It has never been made clearer that a director makes the movie, and not the actors, than in this uneven waste of time.With the lone exception of the treatment Nick Nolte receives at the hand of a tramp at his dinner table, I would remember very little.Just "trust me" ( I hate that line, but...) when I tell you that you have better things to do. If you are a BIG fan of Emily Watson, than go ahead, but other than that, there is no reason to bother with this mindless drivel. I have critiqued a few other movies and been complimented on my synopsis, so you can rely on this recommendation.It looks to me like our director was "calling in" some favors.

This horrid movie is another year 2000 waste of film that combines the very worst of Rain Man and Striptease. Besides being a misdirected rip off of mostly bad movies itself, it goes absolutely nowhere. Watson is painful to watch here, and Nick Nolte speaks like a cross between Tommy Lee Jones in Natural Born Killers, Burt Reynolds in Striptease, and some non-descript tall southern/western bumbling gentleman. The dialogue here is supposed to be funny by delivering these annoying twisted one word punchlines at the end of sentences, and by being "comically" serious. Even worse is the detective character played by Watson, combined with the movie's 1:57 length. Although it's unwatchable, I'm not surprised after 10 Things I Hate About You, Being John Malkovich, Pearl Harbor, The Mexican, Hugo Pool, Snake Eyes, and the Matrix. Nick Nolte must really regret this one.

Good movie. Odd, off balance, imaginative, agitating - everything that an ultra-passive braincell-hybernating spoonfed-explosion stale-cool critics-approved movie pencil-envies. My opinion.