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0% on Rotten Tomatoes (0 fresh out of 18 reviews)


18 reviews so far, all bad.

There must have been a reason it took two years to find a distributor.

I wanted to see this because I'm familiar with the locations (South Haven and Holland Michigan).

Looks like I'll wait for the dvd so I can fast forward through it.

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I can't for the life of me figure out why this movie was panned so hard by critics. I saw it twice this weekend, and though I found some of the Mormon characters hard to take seriously (but frankly, I find real Mormons hard to take seriously so that problem might not be the film's fault) the film is entertaining which to me, if a film does that it's successful.
And Jennifer Connelly's performance is extraordinary, one of the best of her career. I think critics are used to seeing the same old hollywood formula of how to approach various things such as mental illness, and think that if something doesn't follow in that mold, they are like: nuh uh you did it wrong, and then don't even give the film a chance. This movie had a fresh approach to dealing a schizophrenic main character, and in my opinion worth going to twice in one weekend.

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prob is its 1 of those moviez bout da life of a person and u just bombarded wid random eventz wid really no story kinda like dicaprio in Hoover or meryl streep in iron lady tho latter is mo focused. of course these moviez r better received bec at least they have compellin title characterz which dis film doesnt

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Well, 4% now and that's why I don't care for RT. Personally I thought it was a great film full of compelling characters and solid acting (I'd give it a 7-8/10) those critics just suck.

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Jennifer Connally was good and Ed Harris and Amy Madigan were reliable, as usual. But the script was confused and confusing, and that VO technique (in a fake Southern accent, yet) got old a long time ago.

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Artaxias -- Prejudice much?

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