The most amazing movie for all the time!!! I wear a t-shirt with Olive face proudly!

This is the classic example of a movie where the parts are much better than the sum. I adore so many of the actors in this movie.... I really thought that I would love it. There isn't anything inherently wrong with this movie - it just isn't great by any stretch of the imagination. At different points it is a drama, a comedy and even satirical (Christopher Guest flashed through my mind towards the end) but it never excelled at being any of the three. What makes it even that much more odd is that I think that the characters were well-defined and had room to grow - I can't think of another similar movie that seemed similarly set up for success but then didn't be anything more then "meh". A few years later Collette and Carell would team up in the far-superior The Way, Way Back. follow me at https://IHateBadMovies.com or facebook IHateBadMovies

great cast, great story, great moral, great everything but fuck the child beauty contest, how's that stuff even legal there across the pond?

Just saw it for the first time, it was on my radar for years and finally I saw it. and is a god damn an excellent movie. Sad but extremely funny. A great dark comedy!