Felicity Huffman does a good job in this movie while pretending to be a man trying to be a woman. Although there are a few annoying and unrealistic things about her performance, she pulls off the role quite admirably.
The main problem with the movie is that it is quite frankly, boring. The introduction to the characters takes a long time, the initial hour of the road trip seems rather contrived and is supposed to make us think that the characters are growing fonder and closer to each other and that they had real issues, but I was never very sincerely convinced by most of what I saw. In the same way, I was never convinced of Bree's church lady persona, uptightness, and complete frumpiness.
It is better than many movies, but still nothing all that special aside from the fact that Felicity Huffman pulls off pretending to be a man ish woman pretty well. It peeks at issues never raised by most movies, but is neither extremely entertaining nor extremely enlightening in any emotional way.
It's probably worth watching slightly more than an average movie, but not all that much more. I'm a bit surprised by all the extremely positive reviews since I didn't find it to be anything all that special.
The main problem with the movie is that it is quite frankly, boring. The introduction to the characters takes a long time, the initial hour of the road trip seems rather contrived and is supposed to make us think that the characters are growing fonder and closer to each other and that they had real issues, but I was never very sincerely convinced by most of what I saw. In the same way, I was never convinced of Bree's church lady persona, uptightness, and complete frumpiness.
It is better than many movies, but still nothing all that special aside from the fact that Felicity Huffman pulls off pretending to be a man ish woman pretty well. It peeks at issues never raised by most movies, but is neither extremely entertaining nor extremely enlightening in any emotional way.
It's probably worth watching slightly more than an average movie, but not all that much more. I'm a bit surprised by all the extremely positive reviews since I didn't find it to be anything all that special.