Whoever picked this location knew nothing about it..

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2002)

First of all, I live in Bucks County and saw some of the shots of
Newtown being filmed. This movie was a real disappointment. I
thought it had an implausible script, a director who studied Alfred
Hitchcock (and used several of his signature techniques) and was
very insulting to the residents of its location. It portrayed Bucks County as a one horse (or was that one police
officer) town with the majority of its citizens as bozos. It looked like
Mel and his family lived some hundred miles from any civilization.
The plot also made no sense. If there were reports of aliens
sighted in an area not only would there be a ton of police, the news
media (from Philadelphia) crawling all over his farm and maybe
even the military. The majority of the acting was weak and even
Joaquin Phoenix who is a superb actor just walked thru the part. I could take the film apart but reserved that right for the critics.