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MJ Fox may have done his best serious acting here, but jett is better. A strange thing about the 70's runaways group. One chick, the one Dakota played in the biopic of the runaways recently, Cherrie Curie, did a great job acting in the 1980 movie Foxes.....and Joan nails it in 87...go figure....

A simple, very depressing, but realistic movie....slice of life stuff. Which, as someone mentioned, is obviously why it flopped at the BO. Very good bar band stuff from Jett here.....

Paul Schrader has never made a movie without merit. Keep in mind this is the guy who wrote the script for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, so even his least movies have something to offer. Schrader deals in some very heavy, deep human motivations and inclinations in his flicks, and never made a movie that was light fluff yet. This is the closest to that claim, and even this movie has merit and substance. Prob the worst movie he made, but even this is good....

Let's face it, the guy has never made a bad movie...

Crowe has had so many weighty roles in the last 10 years...gladiators, undercover whistle blowers, naval commanders, genius college professors that are crazy, etc., that if he stoops to play light romance, he gets castigated, as if he is beneath himself. Sure, this is a Hugh Grant-sh role typically, only because he is usually cast in such things, and he is a good one-trick-pony at it. I think every great actor, including Hoffman,Pacino,and Dinero, have done the light stuff. Pacino got reamed for his one attempt, "Author, Author", but Hoffman won honors and best pic for "Kramer vs.", and Dinero has been essentially beloved for his light comedies, and deservedly so.

Yet once Crowe, who I believe is of that same caliber, tries it, it gets reamed by critics. Go figure. I think it is also because he is disliked by so many. Perhaps a likable role just doesn't jive with their image of him, who knows? This performance was just fine. A nice change of pace for Crowe.

Oh my God....I never thought Owen was exactly a laughriot, but, being the farrelly bros., I thought perhaps this was worth a watch. Does a comedy without laughter make sense? This makes "Caddyshack" look like Citizen Kane. Where did they go wrong? Man, where do I begin? Horrible script. Horrible, humorless acting. No laughs OR drama. Not even good raunch, like Old School or The Hangover. Just a really boring flick. Would find more entertainment value in a Hannah Montana movie.

While the movie grossed 45 million, a shock(obviously in the first couple weeks before the word got out the movie sucked), it has all the feeling of a direct to video movie. This is actually painful to watch, it's so empty of everything.

The only laugh for me was at the beginning, when the son said his mom had a fat butt. And then it went downhill very fast.

Last factoid...the mousy secretary from the office stars in this, and she is really really bad. Applegate is as awful. Let's hope they stick to sitcoms in the future. The two male leads are just as bad. really really really bad.

I've seen direct-to-video movies that look like Casablanca in comparison to this dreck. I am in shock that this actually made money at the box office(46 mill).....they all deserve their money back. The two hours of their lives wasted, however, are gone forever, sadly..