#2 in the IMDB Top 250? C'mon!

Rating: Null/10 (31 December 1999)

It's not as though I can't see what others might like in this film, but I confess to not being able to see past the whiny self-pity that the characters clung to long enough to enjoy this movie as well as most of the other IMDB users apparently do.
EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER in this film is full of resentment and anger over the fact that their lives haven't turned out as they've hoped. Everyone is to blame but themselves. And I care, why?
The possible exception to the self-pity party: Wes Bentley. But his depth is just about negated (in my mind, at least) by his unexplained crush on Thora Barch (the sulkingest, eye-rollingest of all of them... quite possibly the most irritatingly self-pitying teen character since Juliette Lewis's turn in "Cape Fear").
Incidentally, is there anything novel about middle-class ennui? Is it a shock that people in nuclear families with beautiful appliances get depressed too?
Turn on a light, folks! Think about someone other than yourself for a couple freakin' seconds. Watch what happens.