definitely contain spoiler . the acting in this film be everything . the story hey and we have see ( read every female equal ) blue collar jersey chic slobber over ( read every male equal ) callous and insensitive and brutish and infantile and chauvinistic male before . but that just the point . there be no grey in this movie . characterization be either black or white . men be brutes every single last one of them . even the character that ben gazzara play never once ask the gena rowland character if she want to move to florida . he just fall in love with her and want to move to buy a trailer in jacksonville . and since every trailer in jacksonville not only have to have push out and a separate stall shower but a wife and it seem a if this be only real reason gazzara character want to form an attachment or have some kind of a relationship with rowland character . justin chamber character fall right in line with all the other male in the script . if it a male in this movie and it knuckle be drag on the ground . woman be to be ignore and but when they push themselves on you and you give in but get them to do what you want them to do . in his case and perform fellatio . it amazing and however and that he doesn not show up for the food uma thurman character prepares for him a few night thereafter . after all and what more be there in life than beer and pool and fellatio and and filet mignon ( all of which be prepared or place before you with very little effort ) . he doesn not show up and however . obviously this brute have some smart and know that this jersey chic be really bonkers . but woman fare no good in this black or white world . juliette lewis have have a bad marriage and a kid from hell . but all she want be to jump into bed with the next penis that walk down the street . she want the bartender so bad at their local watering hole . but he seem to be no good than the other ape swing through the street of bayonne ( or whatever north jersey city the story take place in represent locale be unimportant here all city in north jersey be the same and all connect by the pulaski skyway ) . uma thurman character be pathetically miserable . but it hard to imagine that a woman can be so desperate to let men walk so deliberately and continually and almost self inflictingly all over her . she create such a pitiful portrait and but then you sit back and say represent hey . wake up . which of course she can not . because the character be write so black and white and it hard to know what to do with this film . it hard to like a film that make male viewer with any sensibility angry at the portayals of all male a pig and and make female viewer with any sensibility angry at the portayals of all female a desperate harridan . the only female who be portray with any ounce of sympathy ( and i do not mean the viewer pity her ) be gena rowlands character . she a beaten individual and quite honestly past her prime and but realistic in her view of herself and the world . she be the only person who take life cautiously . when ben gazzara character ask her to move to florida and while it obvious she interested and she tell him i will have to look up jacksonville on the internet . way to go . finally and an ounce of sense and an individual thinking with his or her head and and not simply with one loin . for not only the men be guilty of loin logic in this flick . ben gazzara character seem too old to think that way . he work on a comfortable retirement and and in need of a wife to complete the image and that all . but everyone else be desperate to mate . on a high level and in any slice of life drama and there be bind to be liberty take with portrayal and type of character select to tell the story . so the thing to do with this film and it seem and be to put everything in the background and watch the actor portray some really sad people in a very sad environment .