SPOILERS
Spoilers sure, but what's to spoil? The critics, no doubt parched for anything resembling a movie of substance these days, have collectively gone off the deep end, hook line and sinker, for this piece of unmitigated garbage. This is surely among the worst "serious" movies ever made, marred at every turn by inexplicable emotional reactions, ludicrous plot turns, bad acting, and bafflingly amateurish ineptitude. The plot can be summarized as follows, tongue only slightly in cheek: Kid has preposterous sexual relationship with a disgusting slimy smarmy creep, creep gets in fist fight with kid, during fight creep manages to hurl himself lung first upon an anchor in Lake Tahoe without kid knowing it, super soccer Mom discovers body the next day and calmly totes it in her little power boat out into the middle of Lake Tahoe in order to bury it in 2 feet deep water (soccer Mom has a screw loose), Mom comes back an hour later to do a striptease and dive to get keys out of corpse's pocket, handsome stranger comes to blackmail Mom, Mom irons sheets drops kids off at tennis and runs around trying to raise $50,000 to pay blackmail, Mom never has more than a 2 second conversation with son, son is an uncommunicative jerk who seemingly has no relationship at all with Mom, Mom hocks jewelry, irritating sit-com father-in-law has a heart attack, handsome stranger performs CPR, handsome stranger looks at family picture while Mom is at hospital and falls in love with her, Mom joins traveling Mariachi band and travels naked throughout Portugal to raise cash, handsome stranger gets in fight with partner in crime and kills him, then dies in car crash in his get-away car, Mom frantically discovers this and smears her love all over his bloody forehead, kid watches the whole thing bemused, and they all live happily ever after. Sounds like a classic, eh? This compelling and organic plot line had a significant portion of the audience in giggling fits throughout. Some of the dialog is so lame, you can't wait for more of the characters to find some absurd way to off themselves, perhaps wishing you could do the same to whoever talked you into seeing this disgusting and degrading trash.
Spoilers sure, but what's to spoil? The critics, no doubt parched for anything resembling a movie of substance these days, have collectively gone off the deep end, hook line and sinker, for this piece of unmitigated garbage. This is surely among the worst "serious" movies ever made, marred at every turn by inexplicable emotional reactions, ludicrous plot turns, bad acting, and bafflingly amateurish ineptitude. The plot can be summarized as follows, tongue only slightly in cheek: Kid has preposterous sexual relationship with a disgusting slimy smarmy creep, creep gets in fist fight with kid, during fight creep manages to hurl himself lung first upon an anchor in Lake Tahoe without kid knowing it, super soccer Mom discovers body the next day and calmly totes it in her little power boat out into the middle of Lake Tahoe in order to bury it in 2 feet deep water (soccer Mom has a screw loose), Mom comes back an hour later to do a striptease and dive to get keys out of corpse's pocket, handsome stranger comes to blackmail Mom, Mom irons sheets drops kids off at tennis and runs around trying to raise $50,000 to pay blackmail, Mom never has more than a 2 second conversation with son, son is an uncommunicative jerk who seemingly has no relationship at all with Mom, Mom hocks jewelry, irritating sit-com father-in-law has a heart attack, handsome stranger performs CPR, handsome stranger looks at family picture while Mom is at hospital and falls in love with her, Mom joins traveling Mariachi band and travels naked throughout Portugal to raise cash, handsome stranger gets in fight with partner in crime and kills him, then dies in car crash in his get-away car, Mom frantically discovers this and smears her love all over his bloody forehead, kid watches the whole thing bemused, and they all live happily ever after. Sounds like a classic, eh? This compelling and organic plot line had a significant portion of the audience in giggling fits throughout. Some of the dialog is so lame, you can't wait for more of the characters to find some absurd way to off themselves, perhaps wishing you could do the same to whoever talked you into seeing this disgusting and degrading trash.