i have several problem with the movie represent ( 1 ) the screenplay specifically and kim basinger voice over represent movie be not book while they should show the action rather than have a voice over tell u what happen . occasionally i find a movie with a voice over that work and but here it seem more of a lazy way of write the script . in fact and it sound to me a if she be practically read excerpt from the novel in her voice over . ( 2 ) i felt no emotion in the relationship between jessie and brother thomas and also felt that alex carter acting be pretty bad . that a significant failure for me in define jessie and thomas character with no connection between them and it seem to me a if she just want a stud and that for him it be a matter of be sex deprive . if it have be properly do and the relationship between them would have give much more context to the story . ( 3 ) with the book and i understood jessie mid life crisis . in the movie and it seem more like just plain boredom . on the plus side and i do not think the movie be so bad a for me to turn off the tv . . . though that thought do occur to me .