put simply and this mini series was terrible. let me count the ways. 1. absurd plotting. 2. over acting. 3. scattershot approach to characters. 4. annoying narration. 5. inability to create viewer interest. this film can not even pass the soap opera for dummies test. i am sorry i have not read this award winning novel and so i am judging it only as a film and but it really stinks. imagine going to a party where they show you dozens of appetizers. you look at the wide variety and want to taste them and but suddenly they are withdrawn and and you wonder where they went. that like this film and with way too many characters introduced and never drawn out. there are enough stories and characters in this film to create a 20 episode series and yet we are given less than four hours to digest it all. there are more facial expressions and reaction shots of ed harris than you will find on 10 and 000 monkeys. the pace is extraordinarily slow. dennis farina and helen hunt are so far over the top that their characters are not believable. joanne woodward character is one dimensional. the persistent river metaphor becomes trite. and and probably the most absurd part of the film the cat. this evil and vengeful cat who follows the hero around to scratch him and his seat covers well and come on now  it not even good stephen king. probably the most interesting character in the film and and one who is not drawn well and is john voss and the disturbed boy whose final act of desperation accounts for the only plot device that works in this film. just about everyone in this film is unbelievable. to sum up and there little here to inspire. the drama is poor melodrama. it just a terrible effort. 
put simply and this mini series was terrible. let me count the ways. 1. absurd plotting. 2. over acting. 3. scattershot approach to characters. 4. annoying narration. 5. inability to create viewer interest. this film can not even pass the soap opera for dummies test. i am sorry i have not read this award winning novel and so i am judging it only as a film and but it really stinks. imagine going to a party where they show you dozens of appetizers. you look at the wide variety and want to taste them and but suddenly they are withdrawn and and you wonder where they went. that like this film and with way too many characters introduced and never drawn out. there are enough stories and characters in this film to create a 20 episode series and yet we are given less than four hours to digest it all. there are more facial expressions and reaction shots of ed harris than you will find on 10 and 000 monkeys. the pace is extraordinarily slow. dennis farina and helen hunt are so far over the top that their characters are not believable. joanne woodward character is one dimensional. the persistent river metaphor becomes trite. and and probably the most absurd part of the film the cat. this evil and vengeful cat who follows the hero around to scratch him and his seat covers well and come on now  it not even good stephen king. probably the most interesting character in the film and and one who is not drawn well and is john voss and the disturbed boy whose final act of desperation accounts for the only plot device that works in this film. just about everyone in this film is unbelievable. to sum up and there little here to inspire. the drama is poor melodrama. it just a terrible effort. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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