Ewi

A writer comes to teach a creative writing class in a prison hoping to find a story for his next best seller. Instead, he finds a fluent ex black panther that has been serving a long time, 20 years since a man was accidentally shot dead during a break in.

In order to help the convict out of jail, the writer must first help the victim's sister set herself free from the metaphorical prison she's been locking herself in for the last 20 years.

The movie is better than the average American TV drama.

Chase Phillips (Helen Mirren) is having a nervous breakdown and her businessman-away-from-home husband hires Elizabeth (Kyra Sedgwick) to take care of the household and their 2 sons. But Elizabeth has her own demons to face, her family has a history of mantal illness, which arises with Chase's self destructive behaviour.

The movie is about the relationship between these 2 women and is mostly predictable and even banal, but the acting is very good. Helen Mirren is superb as usual, and Kyra Sedgwick is doing quite a good job herself. Not bad for Kevin Bacon's debut film as a director.

Alright, this isn't the best movie/romantic comedy/comedy ever to be made, so don't get your hopes too high. But still I kind of liked it, and it's a nice, though a bit silly way to pass time.

I liked especially the hero's strange daydreams.

The first making love scene, when they are rolling on the carpet, was odd in my opinion. How do they manage to take off their clothes, kiss and touch each other while rolling side to side, not to mention getting dizzy and hitting their head on the hard floor?