Sadly, I don't think that a television adaptation of this film will be made for American TV, but it was readily available at the video store I go to - I don't know if Hollywood Video is a national chain or not (I'm in Wisconsin) but that's where I got it from. I'm addicted to all that is Sundance so it caught my eye. In my immediate family, three of the four of us (my mom is the 'normal' one and she's the one that watched it with me) has a serious mental illness, so although I don't have Tourette's, I do have OCD among other things so I appreciated the movie more than my mother did. Mark was a jerk about some things, but speaking as a mentally ill person surrounded by both the affected and the unaffected, I well know the difference between actions borne of illness, bad behaviour, and ignorance. Mark had a mixture going on. His wife was totally damaging to him - reckless to the point of danger. I really hated her saner-than-thou attitude. Hated her in general. While I saw the sadness in the movie, I have practically lived some of it so it didn't affect me so much where I didn't see the humor in the film. Noir, yes, but funny as hell just the same. You can't tell me that you didn't laugh when he explained to his best friend why he doesn't like sitting in chairs! LOL However, I have been told that I have a very dark sense of humor in the first place, so perhaps it's just me. My mom (who usually watches strictly Hollywood stuff) cried and didn't see the humor much. I thought that the ending was realistic - everybody was still pretty screwed up and had problems, but things had progressed and changed quite a bit beginning to end. I think I just responded to everything everyone said on this board...sorry I can get a bit carried away when it comes to talking about certain things.
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