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Title: Obnoxious, fraudulent crap that insults on every level
Review: How to describe how loathesome this film is? 60-something pursuing 30-something Hunt, despite the fact that her mother (Shirley Knight) is Nicholson's age? The pathetic gay character (Greg Kinnear, stealing Rupert Everett's Oscar nomination) who is beaten and seems to have no friends or lovers? The mugging of Cuba Gooding Jr.? The endless, winding plot that goes nowhere and never builds? Hunt, trying desperately to turn a single mother cliche into something real, despite her leaden commentaries about the HMO system? The ENDLESS cuts to the cute dog? The film's nasty, venomous "humor" coming from Nicholson, which is then tried to be covered up in "Oh gee, isn't this awful" backtracking? A completely vile film that inexplicably became a huge hit; everything in it is false, right down to Art Garfunkel's version of Monty Python's "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" that cuts out the profanity (and the bite). Avoid like the plague.
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