It's amazing how often ephemeral rubbish wins Oscars

Rating: 2/10 (15 August 2000)

Really, it's not worth spending 1000 words on rubbish like this. I suspect that it was politically correct for the great and good in Hollywood to vote for a film that portrays marriage as damaging and unhealthy and normal family life as sterile and meaningless, that shows the military as sexually repressed, murderous and dysfunctional and a gay partnership as my, my so clean and wholesome. Get real - why should anyone remember such a trite and cliche-ridden film in 10 years time? But if anything in the film deserved an Oscar it was Annette Bening's performance. She was worlds better than anything else about the film.