Title: A Swing and a Miss...
Review: Although I was not familiar with the story, I was REALLY wanting to see this movie. However, the story never lived up to my anticipation. Try as it does to present meaning to the tragic upper middle class American society that Sean Penn loves to hate, the movie comes off as an attempt to portray a spoiled, self-centered "victim" as a liberating messiah. In the film everything he touches is turned to gold. But yet, he remains a unfulfilled, self-absorbed uber-brat. Yeah, we all hate our parents at time throughout our lives, I get it. But to this extent?The message of the movie is simply this: focus all attention of your life on your own fulfillment (or lack of). In the end, this will somehow give you a satisfying, albeit, unplanned death. But the soundtrack was good. Save your money on this one. Better yet, try to find Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf.
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