Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): in this year 's summer movie preview issue of _
entertainment_weekly _ , theresa connelly described her writing - directing debut , _ polish_wedding _ , as " a child that did not quite become the child i thought it would .
"
one wonders what exactly she originally had in mind for this jumbled film , a comedy - drama that
appears doomed at its most basic elements .
the family at the center of _ polish_wedding _ is the pzoniaks , which consists of mother jadzia ( lena olin ) , father bolek ( gabriel byrne ) , sole daughter hala ( claire danes ) and four sons of varying degrees of facelessness .
it 's a large family , but there 's not a sympathetic one in the whole bunch , certainly not in the primary trio .
jadzia takes pride in building and maintaining a home and family , but she 's kind of a hypocrite since she 's carrying on an affair with a businessman rade serbedzija ) .
her excuse for her affair is neglect from bolek , who is such a passive wimp that one can not connect with his sadness and frustration .
also , how could he possibly pay so little attention to the saucy , sexy jadzia ?
hala is a spoiled , self - centered high school dropout whose reckless sexual experimentation predictably leads to pregnancy .
with such an unappealing set of characters , it 's no surprise that _ polish_wedding _ 's plot complications are far from involving .
naturally , jadzia and bolek would like hala to marry the young cop , russell schuster ( adam trese ) , who fathered the child , but he refuses to make such a commitment .
ho - hum .
another complication , involving the decidedly un - virginal hala being selected to crown a statue of the virgin mary , is first played for laughs and then ,
inexplicably , as a profound statement in the film 's climax -- which , ironically , is funnier than any of the film 's lame attempts at humor , such as a painfully labored slapstick attempt where jadzia leads her sons in a charge to beat up russell .
that scene is but one in a number of writing miscues by connelly .
the jadzia - bolek conflict is resolved in an overly pat way not unfamiliar to sitcom viewers .
the hala - russell conflict is n't resolved in as contrived a manner , but their ultimate resolution will leave viewers wondering if they had missed something . and then
there 's some atrocious dialogue , which i am sure was not supposed to be as ridiculous as they sound : " look at all these pickles .
just looking at them gives me such great sadness .
" as misguided as _ polish_wedding _ is , the affair is something of a letdown , considering the strong performances by byrne , danes , and especially the fiery olin .
they obviously believed in connelly and her material -- a faith that audiences will be hard - pressed to share .
Output (English): N