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This "feel good" movie made me laugh out loud for two acts, and then left me with a very bad taste in my mouth at the third. It contains a profoundly reactionary sub-text, and almost subliminal message, that serious war correspondents and investigative journalists are blow hards, no longer relevant to the modern world, are self regarding and narcissistic and completely lack any sense of humor. If they could only put on an apron and make fluffy eggs on day time TV the world would be a better place. Not for anyone who worries that American TV as a news medium is no longer performing the Fourth Estate functions it should. Only when the emasculation of his reputation was complete was he supposed to gain our sympathy. That not one review even touches on this is even more disturbing.

... hope that the art of film criticism isn't dead. That nobody said, at any stage in the proceedings "but it's a truly awful script so why make it?" seems extraordinary. I have to give it one point for the fact that somebody managed to sell this lame piffle, all the way from Cameron Crowe's computer into cinemas.

What an achievement. Amazing how so much talent in the same rolls of celluloid can produce so little traction. What was everyone smoking? Wow... this is actually bad enough, to be used for salutary purposes in film classes. You can't polish it if it's not there to be polished.Tobe required to write no less than ten lines about this film is asking too much

Lots of neat symbolism - I thought Miranda Richardson did a killer job with a tight script, some great sets (the room of mirrors is brilliant)sharp direction

and great cinematography.

I can't think of a better film depiction of a woman who suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder - it's clinically right on the button - - I guess it

just depends on why you watch a movie - for me it was really arresting

I do agree Kirstin Kreuk was probably out of her depth at

the time (2001)against Miranda Richardson... few wouldn't

be at her age. Her progress as an actor in Smallville hasn't been stellar either - but you can't blame the casting director really - she looks perfect in the role

Ground breaking moral film running counter to the exploitative mainstream. Deserves, and will probably receive, serious study by film students for many years to come.

I can only imagine this would have been the kind of rare, special once-in-a-life-time project all who participated must feel pretty good about.