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Title: A Confused Mess!!!
Review: Large ensemble pieces like this take a great deal of directing skill, ala Robert Altman, that this filmmaker obviously did not have. The movement between stories of three different families and several individuals was awkward at best and completely muddled at worst. I also found myself not caring about these people, who struck me as uninteresting, unbelievable and unengaging. In addition, most of the actors, with the exception of the often wonderful Patricia Clarkson, either overacted or felt like cardboard cutouts of their characters. This was an abyssmally bad and silly film that should have gone straight to video with a warning on its cover that read "For less than mature audiences only."
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