Unnoriginal and boring

Rating: 1/10 (14 February 2005)

Animated by the promising reviews everywhere i went to see this film, and i can tell you i will never trust critics again, this awful piece of cinematography is a waste of peoples time, and i am sorry for every cent spent on celluloid for this should have been a straight to TV film at TNT or the history channel at best, it is boring, uninspired, slow, awfully edited, there are some promising parts inside the writers imagination but they seem to be taking of into something actually good when it plummets into the cheap drama, easy metaphors, and an ocean of common places.
the subdrama of the dyng mother is as clichÃ© and its outcome so predictable as kate winslet's performance. A shallow unmemorable character for a shallow unmemorable movie. It's the Shakespeare in love formula applied to kids (minus gwynet and the good humor). It wont decide between the actual subject of the movie, either the creative process, the relationship with the kids or the relationship with the mother, IT could be considered as a whole but since obviously the director doesn't have the talent to touch all this points at once, the uncompromised movie fails to deliver almost every message it tries to get across.
Save your money, rent it if you'd like, don't keep feeding the greedy industry, rewarding it for bad movies with good PR executives.