Director Christine Lahti has a problem: she wants her misfit teenager (Sobieski) & her middle-aged salesman (Brooks) to have a genuinely transformative relationship, but she knows making their relationship sexual would only make it a male fantasy (for that, see GHOST WORLD). So she throws a wicked curve ball right through the middle, just when you think you've got the second half figured out.
It's a gutsy move & it's only partly successful, but all the performances (major & minor) ring true (especially the two leads), putting this film as a whole in the plus column.
Jan films42.com
It's a gutsy move & it's only partly successful, but all the performances (major & minor) ring true (especially the two leads), putting this film as a whole in the plus column.
Jan films42.com