Wasted Effort and Time

Rating: 3/10 (12 June 2011)

People may not like hearing it but this movie evidences that but for her last name and connections, the director of this mess would be hard-pressed to get paid employment as a grade school teacher. This is what used to be called a "hot mess" and it does no one any favors. The playing with time and music could have been interesting but ends up being distracting. The acting is wooden and it seems uniformly so and it appears likely to have been the intention of the director. The whole effect is a bit nightmarish (eyes wide something or other?) but whatever was intended,what one should do is get the Norma Shearer version (not perfect history but a fine film) and say 10 times -- nepotism is a bad idea in film-making just as it tends to be everywhere else.