About as entertaining as attending an AA meeting

Rating: 5/10 (3 November 2012)

During the late 1960's and 1970's I remember that independent producers used to make these "church" films, and rent out the movie theaters to show them. The films were under the guise of "entertainment" pictures, but essentially were morality tales about the evils of drugs, alcohol addiction, infidelity, etc. This movie smacks of that sort of picture. Character with substance abuse problem refuses to admit he has a problem, and must be re-born. God, I hate being preached to. I don't like it in church and I certainly don't like it in movies. This film is a huge disappointment. Preachy, predictable and pedestrian. I would have expected better of Robert Zemekis. Perhaps he has been attending too many AA meetings these days, because the film feels like it was made by Alcoholics Anonymous.