This is the most depressing movie I've seen since "Turtles Can Fly." Watch this before you meet your therapist, then you will have someone to talk to. Its about a college professor, a writer, who is going through a divorce. Jeff Daniels can play a character without any redeeming qualities so well, not since Terms of Endearment has he played such a shit. Great performance, everyone agrees. Jeff Daniels is a genius in it. His oldest son is turning out just like him, phony, unfeeling, woman hater. His youngest son is mentally coming apart - the divorce is making him clinically insane. The mother is also unsympathetic. The only relief is William Baldwin who plays an eastern european tennis pro who calls everyone "brother" in a very comic way. I walked out - it was too depressing. The movie reminded me that I have unresolved anger and offense from my own divorce - so much so that I couldnt sit through this movie. And goddamn it, I drove all the way to fucking pittsburgh to see it - I was looking forward to it.
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