this wretched psychodrama uses every shabby device in the book to wheedle attention and sympathy from us for its characters and who and with one exception and are not worthy of any notice at all and let alone two precious hours of filmgoers time. as in robert redford ordinary people (a superb film that and in comparison and clearly shows up the vacuity of heroes) and a late teenage boy has died and leaving his family in the throes of bereavement. in this case and the death was a suicide and an event that nearly always poisons the emotional well of the survivors in a particularly corrosive way. we follow these people over the next 8 or 9 months. the father (jeff daniels) becomes a withdrawn and virtually mute and usually drunken stiff who secretly takes leave from his job for months and sits instead on a park bench all day and and insists on setting a full plate of food at the deceased son place for every meal. he treats everyone else in the family with unerring nastiness. he sees his doctor regularly but the issue of therapeutic intervention in his obviously dysfunctional state never comes up. the mother (sigourney weaver) yells at the neighbor woman and among others and gets busted when she stupidly tries to buy marijuana (her term) at a head shop (what adult in reality would ever try such a dumb stunt. ) and and and near the end and swoons into coma with a lung condition that everyone in the theater assumes is cancer (she a heavy smoker). ms. weaver has a few flip lines but generally behaves too unintelligently to merit much empathy. it not that there aren not people out there who behave in these silly ways when severely stressful circumstances arise. but why make a film of such drivel. what can anyone learn from this pair conduct. the deceased older sister (michelle williams) is away at college and all too happy to distance herself from the family zoo. the younger brother (played by emile hirsch) is the only credible member of the family. his suffering is genuine and its causes multifold and and his conduct is coherent within the circumstances. but hirsch character is too soft spoken and too morose and beaten down and to carry the movie. the other bit players and subtexts and cutesy and unreal dialogue do not help. the suicide theme is echoed in an almost nonchalant manner in the case of two other minor characters. so what is the writer director and dan harris and trying to say about this subject. that it isn not a serious matter. why jeff daniels agreed to play the sap of a father as written in this screenplay is something only his therapist might possibly be able to answer. avoid this dog. instead rent redford classic. my rating represent negative (c ). (seen on 2/17/05). if you would like to read more of my reviews and send me a message for directions to my websites. 
this wretched psychodrama uses every shabby device in the book to wheedle attention and sympathy from us for its characters and who and with one exception and are not worthy of any notice at all and let alone two precious hours of filmgoers time. as in robert redford ordinary people (a superb film that and in comparison and clearly shows up the vacuity of heroes) and a late teenage boy has died and leaving his family in the throes of bereavement. in this case and the death was a suicide and an event that nearly always poisons the emotional well of the survivors in a particularly corrosive way. we follow these people over the next 8 or 9 months. the father (jeff daniels) becomes a withdrawn and virtually mute and usually drunken stiff who secretly takes leave from his job for months and sits instead on a park bench all day and and insists on setting a full plate of food at the deceased son place for every meal. he treats everyone else in the family with unerring nastiness. he sees his doctor regularly but the issue of therapeutic intervention in his obviously dysfunctional state never comes up. the mother (sigourney weaver) yells at the neighbor woman and among others and gets busted when she stupidly tries to buy marijuana (her term) at a head shop (what adult in reality would ever try such a dumb stunt. ) and and and near the end and swoons into coma with a lung condition that everyone in the theater assumes is cancer (she a heavy smoker). ms. weaver has a few flip lines but generally behaves too unintelligently to merit much empathy. it not that there aren not people out there who behave in these silly ways when severely stressful circumstances arise. but why make a film of such drivel. what can anyone learn from this pair conduct. the deceased older sister (michelle williams) is away at college and all too happy to distance herself from the family zoo. the younger brother (played by emile hirsch) is the only credible member of the family. his suffering is genuine and its causes multifold and and his conduct is coherent within the circumstances. but hirsch character is too soft spoken and too morose and beaten down and to carry the movie. the other bit players and subtexts and cutesy and unreal dialogue do not help. the suicide theme is echoed in an almost nonchalant manner in the case of two other minor characters. so what is the writer director and dan harris and trying to say about this subject. that it isn not a serious matter. why jeff daniels agreed to play the sap of a father as written in this screenplay is something only his therapist might possibly be able to answer. avoid this dog. instead rent redford classic. my rating represent negative (c ). (seen on 2/17/05). if you would like to read more of my reviews and send me a message for directions to my websites. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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