Just a so-so movie

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2001)

***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** This movie at times is done on the level of T.V. movie. The father daughter relationship in the film isn't all that deep. It is pretty one note and predictable. The film then has go to with the overly sappy and happy ending. For me, it just didn't ring true. It could have with something with a bit more edge, considering the subject matter and setting of the film. It needed more a Boogie Nights kind of ending. Call me cynic, but that is what I think. The film at times resorts to lazy writing. The father (John Goodman) and Daughter (Piper Perabo) have fight after he finds out what she does. Goodman gets into some sort accident and winds up in the hospital. Through that things are patched up and all better. Too many films resort to that sort of thing to the characters back together. It is not very imaginative. The film could have found a different way to patch things up or have the less happy where everything all happy and gooey. 4/10