Can this movie be any good?
The Daniel Webster and the Devil, Shortcut to Happiness, or whatever they want to call this movie, has been a modern disaster in the film industry by just sitting on a shelf for over five years.
From the beginning in 2001, the starting budget of 5 million dollars shot wildly to 25 million (probably thanks to Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Love Hewitt having over a dozen dinners together on the movie's payroll right before Baldwin divorced his wife). Then, this movie was seized by the government because the producers were supposedly crooked with much finances. Baldwin was immediately outraged and severed all ties to this film which included removing himself as director. Now, as a Alan Smittee movie, there have been one or two attempts through the years to release this movie but something must have barred that from happening. Anyone of the actors in connection with the project wiped their hands clean of the film too as if they know something they will not tell the audiences. The actors did what they like to do with any dud movie, take the money and run. With a five year old movie decaying on a studio shelf, I'm certain that the current company which plans to release this film probably bought it for a song (Anything other than a Jennifer Love Hewitt song).
The one thing this movie is could be a time capsule to when Hewitt was actually considered to be a film actress. In the last five years, her only movies that have made it to theaters in North America were flicks with a computer-animated cat and Hewitt was on scene for no more than ten minutes in each film. It's fitting that she is playing the devil, I'm certain that she would have been able to study the devil's character when she made a deal regarding her acting career years ago. I think the deal has since expired.
For anyone who wants to see this story, watch one of the first halloween special of The Simpsons.