Reality Often Isn't Pretty

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2019)

I watched this a year after it came out, and again last night around 11 years or so later. It's an interesting story about some broken people who eventually discover that healing really only happens when you go outside yourself and help another...Something a recovering addict like myself can understand perfectly well. It is definitely gritty and not for everyone. Christine Ricci is really a damn good actress. I thought so when I first saw her in the Adams Family. In this movie she is so convincing as a terribly broken little girl in a young woman's body. At first we just see her as a sex addict living a very risky life style that nearly kills her. Eventually we glimpse that inner terrified child and can't help but to be empathic towards her. That's some real acting chops there. Then again she was surrounded with a lot of major talent so there was plenty of acting chops to go around. I really liked this movie