this be one of those crappy soap opera or t. v. movie from a television director and brad silberling and who hasn not quite figure out what a feature film be or should be . it distinguish by trivial and cliched and daytime serial dialogue and a nauseatingly trite and maudlin story and unlikable and unattractive lead character and an inconclusive and unsatisfying end and a score lift directly from american beauty . it also feature constantly ring rotary phone that no one decide to answer for at least four to five ring ( be this to tell u the story be set in another decade and and if so and why . ) but bad of all and the film suffers from name call syndrome and that be and character who know each other constantly and annoyingly use each other name in normal conversation just to make sure we do not ever confuse any of this with reality . here an example representben represent so and what do you think and joe . joe represent i be not really sure and ben . that type of crap . straight out of a soap opera and or a stage play . just for a little variety and sometimes the name come at the beginning of a line and like this representjojo represent oh and ben and stop act like that . ben represent jo and what be you talk about . maybe the idea be to keep remind the audience who who and to make sure we never forget their name ( god know we wouldn not be able to follow the story without that crucial information ) . but all this technique really do and of course and be keep tell the audience and over and over again and it only a movie and it isn not real . because in real life and people who know each other almost never use each other name not unless theyre call out to get each other attention and or want to kill each other and or both . this film doesn not rival the top offender in this category and thank god the bad be american buffalo ( which make me run scream from the theater after about fifteen minute ) and wonder boy and both of which achieve a false and theatrical quality strictly because of this annoying tendency . american buffalo be base on a play and so one can see how it suffer from not be properly adapt and but wonder boy and take from a novel and have absolutely no excuse . neither do this p poor film . sorry and brad . maybe it time to go back to t. v .