**SPOILERS** Not much of a plot here but lots of talking and emoting especially from Molly Ringwald as the cheated on wife Penelope in this utterly confusing soap opera about some dozen, give or take a few, former high-school classmates taking part in a reunion as well as chilling out in a cabin in the country.
Even though this is all supposed to take place ten years, as shown in a number of flashbacks, after the event that brought them all together happened the people don't look as if they aged a day. As things soon turn out the guest of honor Emily, Christina Applegate, who organized this reunion is not only the last person to show up but commits suicide, by hanging herself, before the night is over! Things get even worse when the people at the party try to get Emily's body to the local hospital morgue when a sudden earthquake hits the area. This has poor Emily left covered up in a barn decomposing in the summer heat as the damaged roads leading to the local hospital are being repaired!
While all this is going on all the young people at the party are either getting drunk high on pot or just reminiscing about the past and how it effected them in regards to their association with the late Emily. As we soon learn Emily was the glue-or giving tree-that kept the group together all these years even though she had almost nothing to do with them during all that time!
We even had a ridicules sub-plot when a number of the drunken party goers kid, or dog, napped a seeing eye dog and held the pouch hostage for pot money. This brainless act on their part had the poor and confused mutt, by being left out in the heat all day, die on them! As things luckily turned out the owner of the dog, a golden retriever, Mr. Forrester,Paul Gleason,later came to the rescue of one of the party-goers when she Sara, Leslie Horan, was about to give birth. We never get to know who's Sara's baby's father is but then this guy James, Johnathon Scheach, who's supposed to work at the local hardware store pops up out of nowhere who then chivalrously takes responsibility for Sara and her new born child even though he's a total stranger to both of them!
Even though get get a number of glimpse's, in some dozen flashbacks, of what happened to Emily that made her take her own life your not really that surprised when you finally get to see the whole picture. It was that anticipation of Emily's dark and troubled past pulse the annoying and almost non-stop music soundtrack in the movie that kept me both awake, how could I doze off with that music pounding into my head, and interested in taking in the entire film even though I should have known better.
Even though this is all supposed to take place ten years, as shown in a number of flashbacks, after the event that brought them all together happened the people don't look as if they aged a day. As things soon turn out the guest of honor Emily, Christina Applegate, who organized this reunion is not only the last person to show up but commits suicide, by hanging herself, before the night is over! Things get even worse when the people at the party try to get Emily's body to the local hospital morgue when a sudden earthquake hits the area. This has poor Emily left covered up in a barn decomposing in the summer heat as the damaged roads leading to the local hospital are being repaired!
While all this is going on all the young people at the party are either getting drunk high on pot or just reminiscing about the past and how it effected them in regards to their association with the late Emily. As we soon learn Emily was the glue-or giving tree-that kept the group together all these years even though she had almost nothing to do with them during all that time!
We even had a ridicules sub-plot when a number of the drunken party goers kid, or dog, napped a seeing eye dog and held the pouch hostage for pot money. This brainless act on their part had the poor and confused mutt, by being left out in the heat all day, die on them! As things luckily turned out the owner of the dog, a golden retriever, Mr. Forrester,Paul Gleason,later came to the rescue of one of the party-goers when she Sara, Leslie Horan, was about to give birth. We never get to know who's Sara's baby's father is but then this guy James, Johnathon Scheach, who's supposed to work at the local hardware store pops up out of nowhere who then chivalrously takes responsibility for Sara and her new born child even though he's a total stranger to both of them!
Even though get get a number of glimpse's, in some dozen flashbacks, of what happened to Emily that made her take her own life your not really that surprised when you finally get to see the whole picture. It was that anticipation of Emily's dark and troubled past pulse the annoying and almost non-stop music soundtrack in the movie that kept me both awake, how could I doze off with that music pounding into my head, and interested in taking in the entire film even though I should have known better.