Product: Keeping the Faith (2000)
Rating: 2.0
Few laughs in tired script about Catholics vs. Jews
Being a keen fan of Ben Stiller & Edward Norton (Elfman is very over rated) several friends and I went along to see this much hyped film that provided few genuine laughs, broken up by long periods of boring dialogue and hackneyed cliches about Catholics & Jews...it was almost like watching that old 70's sitcom "Bridget loves Bernie". To be honest it become a tedious quest to see if I could stop from falling asleep from the poor quality script !The plot devices used in this film are as old as the hills, the jokes you can see coming from a hundred miles away....and Elfman is unbelievably weak compared to Stiller & Norton. Elfman is obviously trying to expand her horizons beyond her one dimensional TV character in "Dharma & Greg"...but this effort by her falls flat on her face !! This cliche riddled movie just meandered on and on like a lost ship without a rudder for what seemed like an eternity !!A dissapointing romance that may possibly only be funny to older religious types that enjoy the old Barry Fitzgerald / Bing Crosby movies !