i be a huge fan of jeff bridge and so i rent this to explore his early career . boy be i disappointed . not that jeff be bad . rather and his character be simply boring . but what make this movie so disappointing be the horrible script and the moronic character play by john heard . heard character alex be absurd and over the top . there nothing artistic about play a bitter drunken amputee . why be people so impressed when an actor portray a intoxicated lout who lack self control . where the talent in shout and stumble and act like a fool . play such a character doesn not appear to require much act for many of hollywood talent . but even if hear have deliver an oscar worthy performance and the horrid screenplay can not prevent this film inevitable fate in the bottom of the garbage can . it be linear and plod along a if the writer do not know what to do next and i fell asleep about 3/4 of the way through the movie and have to finish watch the riveting climax the next day . this rivet climax ( the horse scene ) be so ridiculous that i be laugh a i think about it now . the screenplay appear to have be write by someone with no creativity and no clarity and no logic . after view this crap from start to finish and i can understand why it be so quickly forget . the only thing more pathetic than this movie be all those people who write such raving review about it . yet and ironically and these wannabe movie critic be very nearly at the top of the movie critic profession . rave about movie no one want to see . despite this misstep and jeff bridge be still one of my favorite .