overlong drama that isn not capable of make any real point . so she become an actress so what . she learn to love big deal . there be a certain eccentricity among the character and in the dialog and situation and but the kind which be bad for the movie and cause it to often seem absurd . summer phoenix and play the lead and talk and behaves like a semi retard person and so there be no choice but to watch the movie a about a retarded girl that make it in the world of theater which be clearly not the intended point . we be tell early on ( in that barry lyndon like narration ) that she learn to hide her emotion and which certainly explain her autistic stone face and but the movie suffers for it . she basically walk around like a zombie and and her success a an actress isn not quite credible give her lack of emotion . occasionally and the movie have that dull and sleepy feel of a dogma 95 movie . be it one . i wouldn not be at all surprised . summer phoenix be sister of joaquim phoenix and the late river phoenix . nepotism rarely work . if you would like to see my hollywood nepotism list and with over 350 picture or entry and contact me by e mail .