Adolescent.

Rating: 7/10 (27 June 2000)

This was a good movie, not as good as the hype but worthy. I thought the theme was rather adolescent though. It was like a good teenager movie where youth is wise and knowing, in touch with their feelings and adults are louts obsessed with money. Kevin Spacey played a character who, supposedly, found himself and shucked off all the social crap holding him down. I guess I saw that whole theme as the rather adolescent. He could work at a minimum wage job and not have any worries about money and drive his cool fast Firebird. Who doesn't want to return to the carefree days of being a teenager where clean clothes appeared in your drawers and meals were placed before you in a spotless tastefully decorated single home where you hung out in your room and got high listening to music. I've worked at minimum wage jobs and lived in the hovels you could afford on that salary. It is not as portrayed in this movie. I saw this movie at a local mega-plex and listened to the crowd afterwards comment on how deep and heavy the movie was as they got into their SUVs and drove to the mall to kill some time shopping. I can understand why this movie won awards since it mirrors the wishes of our pathetic, youth obsessed society.