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So much craft went into this work, obvious love and care to make this film beautiful and powerful, and for the most part competent acting job. In the end, I felt insulted, and that so much wasted effort on a script that is doing its level best to be important, it forgets to be good, and ends up hamfistedly telling me how important it is. I hesitate to call it horrible, since its in no way a badly crafted movie, but the crass manipulation involved in the story made the movie a chore. Thornton rose a bit above the role, but everyone left it what they must have found in it, one-sided, static, mouthing out platitudes about the worrisome naure of race in america. God if we could only crumble and rebuild ourselves together!

These folks could probably get together and make a good film about race, but first they need to drop the after school special style script and shot making. Completely inorganic...