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This Slice of Life film seems to have been pieced together from the submissions of a 28-student class of fledgling Screen Writers. Each scene has the same framework, which identifies the requirements of the screen writing teacher. From that point on, each Student is given the freedom to flesh out their scene as they see fit in order to make each of them unique in some fashion. The Casting Director was lucky to cast a pair of actors who have the skill and experience necessary to fulfill each of the student screen writer's dialog and directions. However, the way the scenes are pieced together make the 82 Minute length seem like the film is dragging in some scenes.

Every time that Hollywood runs out of good, original, ideas, it reaches for the classic novels that made for good movies in previous iterations, and re-shoots them.

Each time, they try to reclaim the factual past in terms of history, and yet tweak the story to make it seem fresh and new.

For the fifth time, Hollywood has reinterpreted F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, and, for the fifth time, the reinterpretation is about as far afield from Fitzgerald's original book as it is possible to do and still fill the theater seats.

The production isn't bad, but there are historical glitches that jump right off the screen for those who know a little history.

Nevertheless, the new generations will enjoy the story for what it is: a good yarn that is worth retelling.