Spare Yourself!

Rating: 3/10 (1 June 2002)

After seeing the high IMDB rating this got, we rushed out to see what inspired the rave reviews. By the end of the movie, we were left thinking that either there are we are too unsophisticated to "get" this movie, or other people's standards for a "good" movie are very different from ours.
*** POSSIBLE SPOILER: I "think" this movie was about how some actresses deal with a total lack of success in Hollywood, among other aspects of how Hollywood is run. But, again, perhaps I am just too unsophisticated to "get it". In any case, the movie centers around an actress who tries to help a woman who has amnesia. The two end up becoming lesbian lovers, and work together to find out the identity of the woman with amnesia. Their journey takes a series of odd twists that I suppose were meant to be "thought provoking". I found them boring, painful and in some cases just plain distasteful.
If you like movies like "Danny Darko" then this film is for you. If you like movies that actually make sense, and do not require you to look through the eyes of some "brilliant" producer who is "way ahead of his time" then spare yourself. I hated this film, and I am extremely happy that I did not pay to see this in the movies. It was simply painful.
-- DP.