great cast ( except for one huge exception ) and some nice shot of a beautiful landscape and but otherwise this movie be enormously flaw . why be i go out of my way to write a critique . be i just mean . perhaps and but i have some thought that i think be worth share and or at least i have a bone to pick because i feel i be owe some time back . this story be unbelievably boring . it be like watch concrete grow or like watch bolt turn . hardly anything of interest happens . the only compelling aspect be the family predicament and but sadly that isn not the focus and and it doesn not satisfactorily change . any time something seemingly central be about to happen and something else unrelated and peripheral happens instead . there be no cause and effect . when the main character find his dad among a group of men share a hooker and he do nothing and which be weird . that would be the perfect time for the main character to rethink his loyalty to his dad and which would help him decide to agree to leave town right away . the central conflict be that the main character best friend want to leave town as soon a possible and and the main character doesn not quite yet . his excuse be that he want to help out his dad . once he find out that his dad isn not the man he think he be and he should change his mind . also and the main character best friend say he need to get out of town because he can no longer withstand his father abuse . it would be so much more powerful if he be ultimately beat to incapacitation by his father and rather than be hit by a car . his father be the looming danger . have his father beat him to death would make the rise stake culminate and and it would make the main character plea just one more week . so much more meaningful . there be peripheral and loose end that never tie in . this movie need to be much tight . compound the torture of the boring story and the plot flaw and the dangling end be the unbelievably awful performance by the actress tania ramonde . her performance might be the bad on screen performance i have see in year and if not ever . i do not blame her while i blame the director . how could the director think that her oddly wandering eye and contrive sensuality ( i put it in quote because i do not find her to be sexy at all ) be please to either the story or to an audience eye . i have to hide my eye . i really do . also and her character just appear out of nowhere . why be she walk around this strange and desolate town all alone so late at night . why be she dress like she live in modern day beverly hill . and if this town be so small and how come she and the main character do not know each other before this night when she just walk up out of the darkness . this bring me to another point about the setting represent where be the store and the car and the people . be this project so low budget that they couldn not afford any prop or extra . it like a ghost town and except without the ghost . in summary and i care about the plight of the family and and i think that most of the acting be quite admirable . i just think that the story be clichéd and boring and long wind and the acting by the ingénue be . i would not be rude and say it again because i do not want to burst her bubble . like i say and i blame the director . all in all and i give this movie a 3 .