Title: Good acting...no story
Product review: Some good imagery. I loved the opening with all the beautiful mediaeval/Renaissance art of cherubic babies and voluptuous nudes.Beautiful Claire Danes is superb as a mixed up teen, Hala, which gets her pregnant, thereby presenting a problem for her devoutly Catholic family.Sexy Lena Olin plays her strong willed and fiery mother, and Gabriel Byrne her thoughtful baker father.Great acting and probably a good portrayal of the Polish area of Detroit, but where is this movie going?It drags, there is no real story and perhaps it is simply supposed to be a Polish-American version of the Irish classic "The Snapper" (1994).And I didn't like the guy, Schuster the local cop, who got Hala knocked up either. He can't get any expression other than that blank stare, right to the end. I don't know why Hala wanted to marry him!
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