God bless Drew Barrymore for having the courage to produce this!

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2003)

I am so tired of predictable movies. I had no idea where this one was going, and to it's great credit, I didn't care. I was along for the ride, and happily so. But when all the seemingly-unrelated threads started weaving together so beautifully and unexpectedly, I was just completely delighted.
And I'm so tired of "nerdy" characters in movies who are really just Cindy Crawford in bad glasses. I mean the kind of character that everyone treats as untouchable when there's really nothing remotely challenging about their world- view and their "nerd" problem could be solved with a better haircut. In this film the title character isn't ugly; there's nothing you can put your finger on, but he puts off such a weird, disturbing energy that you totally believe everyone would avoid him.
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Another thing-- I was also SO happy to see a character be GENUINELY HEROIC. Not some sting-ray-bike-riding, fist-pumping, yelling-"YEAH!" -to-the- heavens PHONY bullsh*t hero, but someone who does something brave and selfless even though no one may ever know or appreciate that he did it, just because it was the right thing to do.
Great film. God bless Drew Barrymore for having the courage to produce it.