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This should have been a moody, gritty, movie which lingered in the memory as an exposition of relationship where the dominant personality only survives because the personality being dominated sees no hope of change.

The acting was intense and skillful, the dialogue worked but the movie was irritatingly ineffective: too many distance shots that suggested lack of focus rather than a broader picture. Poor flow. The first 5 minutes could have been missed out altogether.

I suspect that, with a different edit, this movie could have been compelling.

In its current form it is flat, formless and tremendously disappointing.

Boring Bad Boring Bad Boring Bad More? Ok. Its almost 2 hours for absolutely nothing. Just to see a random guy mental issues. No thriller, basic, expected, predictable and simply ridiculous.

The fact they spent 50 million for a movie shot in a bedroom with green screens it's just ridiculous and actors should give the money back to the poor and in need!

Nothing else to say to this time wasting, but imdb wants people to write a book about it because a simple opinion is not food enough, they must be part of this movie production team..

More? Ok. Its almost 2 hours for absolutely nothing. Just to see a random guy mental issues. No thriller, basic, expected, predictable and simply ridiculous.

The fact they spent 50 million for a movie shot in a bedroom with green screens it's just ridiculous and actors should give the money back to the poor and in need!

This filmmaker wanted to make a movie without having a story to tell -- and did so. Really awful jumble of unlikely/unexplained coincidences and unidentifiable plot line, all without character or clear motivation.

We get cliché snapshots instead of characters. One in particular is the diminutive and beautiful crime boss, who projects an overdone "tough guy" persona and casts a cartoonish shadow of intimidation over the actual tough guys who have been brought in to work for her. Nothing much startling to look at in the film except for one shot when the boys hit the road and one of them carries a tiny suitcase (as in, the smallest from a complete American Tourister set) in a bright, sky blue, without explanation or apology. Otherwise it's standard visually -- one other exception is a compelling shot of a beautiful bridge in CT.

This movie was excellent.

It is clear this movie is based on the trials, trivia and challenges many adults and young adults face.

It is specific, to the point and most enjoyable to young and older adults.

The movie is based on real life situations in both parenting, mentoring and growing pains of young adults. What we all face in life.

As for a Connecticut Clip Shot, I suggest you visit CT to understand why CT was a chosen state in that clip.

I truly feel that the first two comments were made by people for other reasons not having to do with this movie.

This movie was excellent.

I recommend it and Happy it is out on DVD.

It serves as an example for parents and youth.

It is based on real life events.

Glad to see this is finally out on DVD. It's nice to see these actors on screen and in roles that suit them well. Gotta love Arquette, Birch, Marquiles and Getty. I wish more movies like this were made these days. It felt, to me, like a movie in the vein of the great indie dramas of the early 90s - the ones that also had a good amount of real life humor but also had real characters. Hopefully it's not a dying breed. I don't mean to imply that this movie is a talky, unplotted movie like Clerks or Pompetus of Love (nothing against those films). This is absolutely a genre film - a con film - it's just done in a sort of different tone than others.

I don't know how this movie did theatrically but it's a definitely worth a rent. I think of it as a hang out movie, to use a Quentin Tarantino phrase, the kind of movie where you really enjoy hanging out with the characters.