Could've Been

Rating: 5/10 (14 January 2002)

This movie has several elements for success in the right place, and could have been a true classic. Ultimately, however, it is undermined by its own thinly-veiled moralizing and its whitewashing of social institutions and history. This confection has an inviting, sugary coating of the sweetness of love and the matters of the heart, but has at its center the preaching of the "moral value" of social conformity.