A phenomenal film

Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2005)

A heart-wrenching look into the lives of a group of people in modern day L.A. This movie excels in the use of emotion, and screenplay to serve up a masterful display of what drama movies should be. You are completely engrossed into the story being played out, and this doesn't falter once throughout the movie. Connection to characters in this movie is brilliantly crafted as you feel passionately for these people in certain sequences. I find movies like these that effect you this much are the ones that have direct impact on your movie viewing standards. Movies like Magnolia and Million Dollar Baby now have a new club member with Paul Haggis's most recent addition to movie history.