Assuming anyone has actually read this far, I guess their question would be something along the line of Hey, Ken, I’m sure this movie sucks and all, but I mean, seven pages worth? C’mon!
I would have agreed with you before this article. I’ve seen the movie before, in fact it’s part of my rather sizable personal collection of bad movies. But it wasn’t until I sat down to really dissect this movie that I discovered how really awful this film is, moment by moment, scene by scene, actor by actor, line by line.
...Also irksome is the mixing of broad, poorly written comedy in some apparent attempt to make the "serious" part palatable. Half the time we’re "laughing" at the antics of the upstairs busybody neighbors or Barbara's tricking guys to move furniture. The rest we’re dealing with an autistic child (in what must be the most inane and offensive possible), or drug abuse or watching, in agonizing detail, as a nut tries to rape a nun. The "comedy" sucks (except for the bit at the store with Ed Asner) and the "drama" is stupid and hamfisted. Neither element works, and are infinitely worse when presented alongside one another. And let’s not even talk about the occasional musical interlude.
Other than that, though, it’s a pretty good movie.
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