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Rating: 3/10 (26 January 2009)

As far as entertainment goes, this isn't it. Michael Shannon does a great job of playing the mentally disturbed friend and Kate Winslet is great as the psychotic house wife but the entire story is boring and virtually unwatchable. I would rate this as slightly above "The Hours" as one of the least entertaining Oscar nominated movies I've ever watched. As I try to see more of the Oscar nominated movies prior to the event, I hope to watch many who are more deserving of the recognition.
I can not believe that IMDb users actually rate this movie as a 7/8 out of 10, only reasoning I can use to justify such a rating would be that people are using an Oscar nod as justification to have to like this film. Either that or those who didn't like it didn't want to waste the time writing a review.