what begin a a fairly clever farce about a somewhat shady security monitoring company turn and almost instantaneously and into an uninteresting and completely inane murder mystery . david arquette and the great stanley tucci try mightily to make this train wreck watchable and but some thing be just not humanly possible . what and for instance and cause gale to turn suddenly from a sweet motherly figure into a drunken shrew at tommy parent house . why would heinrich and although admittedly a sleezebag and want to destroy the business to which he devote his life and by rob and possibly murder his customer . why do the seemingly sensible tommy believe that heinrich could be a murderer ( base almost entirely on a dream ) and and even if that be believable and why wouldn not he go to the police . and why do not gale activate the alarm when she get home and especially after scold howie about it be off . of course and all of these event be necessary for the plot ( and i use the term very and very loosely ) to unfold . and it might be forgivable if it result in even the slight bit of comedy . but everything and from howie description of his date rape and to the coroner misidentification of gale and to the final joke about gale and howie still be dead and be more tasteless and pathetic than anything else . i check the box indicating that my comment contain spoiler and but there nothing more i or anyone else could do to spoil this thing that already stink to high heaven .