One of the worse movies I have seen this year

Rating: 2/10 (20 November 2005)

I had a lot of expectation for this movie. With some famous names in the list of actors, I thought it would be a nice movie for a lazy, rainy, Saturday night. But I was wrong, the story is really shallow, the acting is so bad, I cannot remember when was the last time I saw any movie like this.
The movie is a fiction, like "field of dreams" and if I had this in my mind before watching the movie, I would have given it a 4 or maybe a 5, but as it is now, I can not give it more than 2 very generous stars that's only because I like to see William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver.
The idea of the movie is interesting, an Amish like society isolated from the outside world where a group of elders decide about the important issues. An utopia of American dream, where girls and boys become adult and chose their partner and get married and life is as good as you can imagine in a perfect Christian way of living. But as the movie goes on, it looses its strength and becomes a boring un-realistic story.
The part that disturbed me most was the scene were Edward Walker (William Hurt) refuses to shake hand with Alice Hunt (Sigourney Weaver) because he has feeling for her. That reminded me of the meeting of Iraqi deputy prime minister with secretary of State, when he refuses to shake her hand, that was the level of fanatic stupidity promoted by this movie.
I am very disappointed at Hurt and Weaver to take part of such a bad movie. They are much much better than this.