A light version of theater of cruelty is popular on stage these days. Such playwrights as John Guare, John Patrick Shanley and Craig Lucas specialize in Jacobean farce, in which lives and limbs are lost. When cruel farce is transposed into a movie, though, the cruelty makes the mood seem out of control, as if no conscious decision had been made on which way the film should feel.
Farrow is very droll as the oblivious mom.
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