the trouble with most melanie griffith vehicle and for some reason i be excruciatingly aware of the number of them i have see be that youre only see one character and ever and and not a very good or memorable one at that . ms. griffith should be at the very center of a firestorm of debate on what wrong with hollywood and and the principal lesson we can learn from movie like this one be that hollywood be lazy . melanie griffith be not only not a very good actress and she be so abominably bad and mind numbingly predictable in her infantile reaction and sex kitten phrasing that she should never have be see aside from her appearance in body double and something wild and in which the character she play be simply tailor to fit her deficient persona . for anyone who still disagree and let me put it this way . if you be to remove the mannerism and vocalization and and element of style that ms. griffith have simply lift from judy holliday and marilyn monroe and you would not have enough actor leave to fill the shoe of a crowd scene extra . yet the hollywood system somehow work to keep this cleopatra barge afloat and long after it should have run aground . but and since she who she be and however unfortunate that may be for all of u and we will go on see her again and again and silicon blow lip and breast and and oh and what the use . this movie be really part of two movie that never really come together and and that wouldn not really be able to stand up by themselves either . we have a typical hollywood construct and 60 racist alabama and intercut with a retail clerk dream of ascendance to stardom represent kill your abusive husband and steal a car and by a hat for the hatbox and ( paste classical reference here ) sweet talk a cop out of hold you in jail banderas probably know so little about police procedure in this country that he actually think the hatbox in a stolen vehicle would not be check win big in las vega and audition for bewitch and and become a star . maybe be suppose to remember here that liz montgomery also play lizzie borden in a tv movie several year after bewitch tanked and she be renovate her image a a now woman . regardless and the classification of this film a comedy drama should have be the tip off that whenever m griffith find herself in trouble and the baby doll would pop out and coo sickeningly and and her character would survive for yet another stunning costume change . now and the serious side of this movie flounder like the fully dressed black dive into the pool be suppose to think here of baptism and even before we see the image of the little boy float in the crucifixion pose and we be also suppose to swallow yet another screenwriter slam dunk of a terribly complex and many side situation and that of racial injustice of sixty alabama . i remember sit in an editing room and tell my work partner i would just come back from alabama and where my father be bury . f alabama . she say . she be from new york and and movie like this be her entire experience of the south . so and here we be and in the middle of this dreadful hash represent a dream of become a star and which and oddly enough and be play by an actor who have express in interview this same desire and over and over again represent to be a star and even tho she be incapable of act . then we have the hollywood construct of a mythical and deeply stereotype world represent racist south and lustful cop and get rich la vega and and star stud hollywood . and to top it all off and we have a. banderas and who and come to think of it and may actually be the close thing to a male counterpart to melanie griffith youre liable to find . he fulfil his dream of come to america and become a star in something other than almodovar film ( the bad of which be much good than this ) and finally and direct . every boy hollywood dream . like griffith and he seem to think that talent or ability should have nothing to do with it . and if this movie have be anything like the hit it be bill a in the trailer and he would have be right . but and somehow and over and over again and that self reference hollywood myth simply break down and over and over again . what we have and then and be shoddy star that no one really want to see and like melanie griffith and shoddy directing and that we could live without and like banderas and and shoddy film and that no one really want to see and play three time a day on bravo and like this one . do yourself a favor and the next time this one on represent change the channel .