To me, this is a great movie spoiled by a perverse ending

Rating: 4/10 (22 January 2007)

I'd love to know if I am the only one who thinks that this was an almost great movie spoiled by a weird flirtation with pedophilia. Right up until Olive took the stage to do her 7-year old strip tease complete with tear-away clothes and hyper-sexual gestures and expressions, this was a witty, insightful film. For me, the sight of a seven year old imitating the gestures and expressions of rough sex taught her by her coked out grandfather spoiled this otherwise delightful film. Maybe it was meant to be satire but it came much too close to the real thing for my taste. Were we supposed to be amused when the child molester in the audience got up to cheer Olive on? Sorry, folks. This was an almost made it witty movie that, like play it forward, was ruined by a needlessly fatuous ending. Too bad.