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How can you not love Timothy Hutton! Great job by all the cast members and especially loved the scenes with actress Paris Rose Yates as Elizabeth's best friend!

A pretentious piece of trash, the dialogue seems to be taken with trying to convince us how these characters are sophisticated New York intellectuals as they make references to behaving like white trash (heaven forbid) yet their favorite expletive is the f-bomb. Then they go on a vagina tirade and it seems they play a game of how many times they can get the word into a 2 minute scene like naughty little school boys who just learned what the word means. Who uses the word vagina anyway other than medical people? Taking the Lord's name in vain seems like an after thought as though the director realized they hadn't offended enough people so he crammed it in several times nearer the end. It seems to me if being "white trash" was so abhorrent to them perhaps cleaning up their mouths might be a good place to start improving.

The title even strikes me as pretentious drivel. Timothy Hutton seems to be stuck in the typewriter, scruffy beard, bathrobe, professor look these days. I think we're supposed to care about these characters but I didn't like any of them (even the precocious kid). Oh, and let's not forget the token relationship enlightened Gabriel has with his gay friend. If I were gay I'd be offended at this attempt to appeal to me. People used to make fun of white people who told black people that they had a black friend. This movie is telling us Gabriel is so with it he has a real gay friend!..... The movie is so ridiculous it's embarrassing.

I doubt the movie will receive the reviews the fake playwright did in this pseudo-intellectual dud. My advice to the producer "bury it at sea some cold dark night" and then hope we all forget.