The creators of this movie just want to make you feel bad. Over and over.
After her mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), murders her ex-lover, she has to go to prison, leaving Astrid (Alison Lohman) to bounce from foster home to foster home. It seems like every tragedy possible befalls Astrid, and whenever she starts to become happy, she's taken away (due to some terrible tragedy) and tragically moved again, in the neverending quest to see how tragic this movie can be.
It's barely tolerable, and maybe worth a rental, if it's your girlfriend's night to pick.
After her mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), murders her ex-lover, she has to go to prison, leaving Astrid (Alison Lohman) to bounce from foster home to foster home. It seems like every tragedy possible befalls Astrid, and whenever she starts to become happy, she's taken away (due to some terrible tragedy) and tragically moved again, in the neverending quest to see how tragic this movie can be.
It's barely tolerable, and maybe worth a rental, if it's your girlfriend's night to pick.