No surprises here

Rating: 5/10 (10 October 1999)

Well anyone who has seen Ordinary People, Twin Peaks, or The Ice Storm knows that all those seemingly placid suburbanites are really emotionally dead and sexually frustrated. At least in Ordinary People there were values to lose. Movies like this one are so nihilistic that they just present the brave honest characters as being the ones like Ricky who don't bother to profess any values (because as we know anyone who does is a hypocrite) and are thus sensitive enough to see the beauty in what everyone else calls ugly. I was bored.