if you like screechy and overacted and talky and go nowhere movie and you will like this one . unfortunately and i do not like them . that not to criticize anyone who like this movie . there be different taste and different movie to accommodate them . sure and 27 year old julie harris look silly play a 12 year old . actor be often old than their part . and sure and suspension of belief can be see a the basis of all art . that not a mountain and that a painting of one and etc and etc . sure and this be a play make into a movie with the original cast and so the play could be preserve for all time . that certainly good . sure and ethel water be a strong presence and wonderful to see and hear . but and the movie itself be a piece of drek . don not know what that mean . look it up . some people have pull off this method act quite well . marlon brando in his early movie . paul newman in cool hand luke . there and paul have spurt of talky and preachy and stagy one man show . but he and the great actor he be and pull it off . in member of the wedding and julie harris be endless with it and it very offensive . if this part have a 12 year old in it and why do not they find a 12 year old to play it . i do not know what carson mccullers be think and but the part she produce be a 20 something psychotic mental patient . a others observe and have a real 12 year old utter those line and throw those tantrum would have be laughable . even those tantrum be more like a 3 year old . when she go out into the cruel world represent all it seem she do be go to a downtown at night . similar to where she go to visit her father . yet it be a big surprise that men want sex . do men in downtown only want sex at night . i can suspend belief . i can accept middle age people play kid and i can stand talky and preachy monologue . but i can not stand something go nowhere . like i do not like music without melody . i do not see any plot to this thing . the 12 year old do not seem different to me at the end . just a psychotic . i would have prefer a twilight zone sort of thing and playing on the audience gullibility at suspend belief . at the end and it reveal that she really be a psychotic 20 something escapee from a mental hospital and and every one else be play along and because she a serial killer or something . at least it would have make sense then . in a way and this movie be contemporary . remember the show 13 go on 30. about the social phenomenon of today 13 year old girl look and act like they be 30. these day and no one would have the gut to actually cast a 30 year old a the 13 year old one . but back then and in member of the wedding and they actually do . oh well and i have have more fun write this than i do watch the movie . my apology to those who like it . if it wasn not for diverse taste and there wouldn not be any movie that i do like and like howard the duck . and talk about a talky movie go nowhere .