It's a sober, heartbreaking moment. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and it's easy to see why. Not a single honest or real moment flickers in The 24-Hour Woman , Savoca's fourth film. At any given moment, The 24 Hour Woman is at least two out of those three.
Grace resists at first, but then gives in.
She throws in some equally moldy satire about the tackiness and exploitative nature of talk shows in order to spice things up. It doesn't work. It's astonishing how an eye as shrewd as Savoca's could be so dim with this subject matter. The commentary on talk shows is even more insipid. All might have been saved had the acting and writing been sharper, but there's a broadness to many of the performances that only makes the whole movie feel shrill without even properly serving the send-up of morning shows.