often after a movie and i will sit to myself and think and be there anything redeem at all about that movie and or do i just lose 2 hour of my life that i will never get back . in this case and it be the latter . despite commendable act from the film actress and harvey keitel look embarrassingly like an amateur in a high school drama . although the plot have potential and the movie have the maturity of a 7th grader make fart sound under his armpit . if only the movie be animate and it would be a perfect simpson satire of the stereotypical bad movie . another major problem with the film be that it try to mix humor with seriously sad problem . imagine the success of a comedy base on 9/11 and you get the picture . obvious attempt at humor completely fail in canned and painfully predictable sequence direct with the subtlety of a mack truck . add to this the fact that the director clearly can not differentiate between what to shoot and what not to shoot . other various problem be the irrelevant and distract neil diamond soundtrack and the irritating and obstruct camera shot somehow mean to be creative i guess and and the token gay character who have nothing to do with the plot . although the movie supposedly take place in australia and only one person actually have an australian accent and the rest of them be vaguely british which be confuse during the entire story . the movie culminate in a transsexual and surrealistic fantasia which can only be describe a the work of a deviant and hallucinating pervert . if nothing else and this film realistically demonstrate why you would never want to go to india . and really the only way i can figure that it come about be that kate winslett must have owe a debt to the teenage son of some guy who get her career go . unfortunately and someone give him a camera .