A SPOILER

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 2001)

I certainly agree that this was a great film with a super performance by Kevin Spacey. However, I subtract a star for the portrayal by Chris Cooper, the retired colonel, as a homosexual (it's almost politically correct to have gays in many pictures now). How does this further the plot in anyway? He could just as well be a straight nasty and mean person who can't understand his son. This an old and hoaky Hollywood standby. I remember when all homosexuals in films were described as "latent."