this be another one of those intelligent art film you need to read the review first before you can understand the movie . if it wasn not for the great music and in general wonderful atmosphere create by the director at the hey hey club and this movie would have be a total flop . the storyline be simply ridiculous and it have no meaning and no reason to be . the secondary story even less and we fail to even understand why it be there . the acting be superficial and in some case exaggerate to the point of be silly ( jason leigh ) . the only remotely positive act performance ( surprisingly ) be belafonte in a not so bad copy of brando godfather . the dialog be simply stupid and the only decent characterization be that of belafonte seldom see which emanate some real emotion and everything else seem to be on the level of a five year old . thank god for the music .