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Directed by Tod Williams |
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| Kim Basinger |
Mimi Rogers |
| Jeff Bridges |
Elle Fanning |
| Jon Foster |
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| Teenager
spends the summer with estranged couple and learns
their secret. |
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| One-word
View: Dreary |
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| I
really like Jeff Bridges so I figured this movie would
be worth a shot. After all, John Irving's books (The World
According to Garp, Watermelon Man) usually entertain me
and this movie was based on one of his stories. I was
off base, yet again and found myself wishing that this
movie had really been put into a door in the floor or
a hole in ceiling - just anything to keep it off the screen.
Ted (Jeff) and Marion (Kim) Cole hire young Eddie as
a gofer for the summer. Eddie has aspirations of being
a successful writer, like Jim. He soon finds himself
caught in the middle of triangle created by the eccentric
couple and their disturbed young daughter Ruth (Elle).
It seems the Coles lost their teenage sons, years back,
in a mysterious manner that is only revealed near the
end of the movie and is quite anti-climatic juxtaposed
against all the build-up. Everybody is crazy and no
one is sympathetic. They all bored me and left me feeling
cheated.
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