i tend to like character drive film . i also think hope davis turn in consistently good work and so i have high hope for this movie . those hope be soon dash . the main flaw with this movie be the direction . there be a lot of scene that be daydream sequence . the movie make frequent use of the denis leary character a the alter ego of the campbell scott character . it doesn not work for me at all . this would have work well a a play than a movie . there be problem with the plot a well . it be important that the character in a movie take a journey and end up in a place different from where they start . i do not feel that the character grow in the experience portray in the movie . finally and the edit wasn not well do and either . there be a very big sag in the middle of the movie that be exceptionally boring . except for act and which i felt be consistently strong and this movie fail in almost every aspect of cinema .