pinhead33

Great story, great acting. Kathy Bates outstanding and heroic, Judy Parfitt also. David S. also very good. Plummer's role would have been better if he'd been a little less narcissitically nasty. Jennifer Jason Leigh a weak link, but not terrible. An excellent watch.

stunningly terrible acting by both female and male leads...shallow beyond belief [e.g the married 28 y.o man, when asked to be relieved of her virginity by his 14 y.o student replies: "But you are too young and, o dear, o dear, I will go to prison and be raped if I do this thing with you"... You can believe a staggeringly narcissistic person might say this, but why not give us a more interesting character. There is hardly an erotic flicker detectable in the relationship. The girl is so zombie like and bizarre -filing a tissue with her hymenal blood among her papers - that some sympathy is evoked, but we're never given any depth at all.

Moore poses a desperately important question: why is America exponentially more gun-murderous than so many other countries? - then proceeds to make no significant explorations towards an answer, choosing rather to find inarticulate, unattractive proponents of gun ownership and have them make sad fools of themselves spouting off. How does showing the slow-brained Charlton Heston fumble with Moore's disingenuous questions give viewers any cogent answer to the problem of gun violence? There were so many tacky maneuveurs on Moore's part... not the least of which was his exploitation of the Columbine victims - schlepping them to KMart HQ in a sleazy PR stunt to embarrass the administrative dolts there into yielding to media pressure? [though it was quite cool that KMART won't be selling bullets any longer] I could rant on...but will, instead, end.