Carolina...

This film hmmmmmm. The acting was great I thought. Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine and Randy Quaid were all marvelous. But whoever edited the film should be fired and never allowed to work again. There are two big holes in the plot line and you know they cut and pasted big time to make the film 90 minutes. That ruined it for me. If they had fixed that, it could have been possible for it to be released in theaters.

Secondly, this is a bit of a Pretty Woman variety fairy tale.. meaning it's another one of those Hollywood films that wants to sell you the idea that really poor decisions can still turn out great.

This family is portrayed as dysfunctional for sure, but not nearly as dysfunctional as they would be in real life making the same decisions. I'm getting a lot tired of this sort of fairy tale.