I thought the plot of the film was rushed. It attempted to fit into less than 2 hours what the novel does in several hundred pages. As a result, the viewer is left with a complete yet shallow story. This is one of those rare cases where the movie should have been much longer. A longer film would have allowed more of the details to be filled in. To put it simply, the film is a kind of "Cliff Notes" version of the novel. Nevertheless, it does tell an interesting story and the acting is very good (Glen Close in particular).