fallen petals

Rating: 6/10 (3 October 1999)

As though plucked from a Todd Solondz rummage sale, refitted, hemmed, arch and ready-to-wear for this, the rage of the Dreamworks fall collection.
I was ready-to-leave before the opening title sequence; but as seats were hard to come by (and harder as the show wore on), I stuck around in hopes of something to take away and argue.
"I will stay to the end. I will stay to the end. I will stay to the end," while glancing toward my wristwatch at shortening intervals . . .
Betty Carter's "Open the Door," an authentic American beauty, used as source music barely twenty minutes into the film is the best that can be said of it.