Boring and Improbable

Rating: 1/10 (22 January 2004)

There were too coincidences used to push the plot along; the movie was too long; the actors were clearly "acting"; not one of the three principal actors made me forget that they were mouthing memorized lines; and the silliest and most improbable event was a minister's daughter having out-of-wedlock sex in the 1860's. It just would never have happened in real life given the values of the era. When will these Hollywood movie writers get a clue that some of the audience has a historical perspective? A movie has to be more than a vehicle for the politically correct ideology they wish to foist on the viewer.