My God, what's that stench?? Oh, it's just the writing.

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2002)

While the scenery is beautiful, this movie was "way putrid".
I can put up with a lot in movies, but if they don't do what they say are doing, I will nail them. If one moment a person is retarded and then you have them recalculating Einstein's formulas *and* you don't have any reason why or how this happened, you aren't writing, you are just stringing words together as it happens to be convenient. In places this movie is just a collection of words.
For example, Ann Marie our heroine, has been working as a maid for sometime. We know that because we hear that they have frequently been late. She is also out of high school so she must be 18 or 19. Yet, when she sees a turd [and they show it] in a bathroom bowl, she *and* her friends act like it is an alien from out of space. That, I might believe if this girl had never had to clean a toilet and lived in a perfect house in Beverly Hills. But, no, Ann Marie lives in a fall-down house on the beach and she has been a maid for a while. No explanation.
Ann Marie works a maid. She is movie star gorgeous - even in the movie she is shown as movie star gorgeous - and she can't get a job as a waitress or hostess or a cashier. No explanation.
Ann Marie must support herself and her little sister. She has no alternatives to make a living, yet apparently in her time as a maid she has never run into a used condom. She goes ballistic. She publicly humiliates a VIP guest. She's a smart girl... she knows she is risking her job and her only source of income. And, for a used condom?? What has she been doing as a maid... picking up twinkie wrappers. Once again, she acts like a Beverly Hills queen. No explanation.
Ann Marie meets a cute guy. Although he is a star quarterback, she acts like she never met a cute guy in her life. I thought she was going to pee in her pants. This is supposed to be a woman of the world, take no prisoners, handle everything and she acts like a four year old. No explanation.