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Title: overrated
Review: Fans of Billy Bob will enjoy this movie, and people will probably buy it for Halle Berry's Academy Award-winning performance. The steamy bedroom scenes will attract some viewers. All in all, the movie has a slightly manic quality. Halle Berry plays the role of convict's wife and bereaved mother without much gradation, and comes across as slightly hysterical throughout. (Her acceptance speech at the Awards seemed a continuation of this "take".) Billy Bob plays a phlegmatic, decent man who has his own memory-demons to conquer. The movie is diverting but fails to satisfy.
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