you know and although i love the lady chablis a very great deal ( when i be not busy hat her for wearing tailor skirt suit so much good than i do ) and you know something be dreadfully wrong with a movie when it have kevin spacey and jude law in the cast and and chablis be the one whose performance everybody remembers . it be impossible to pour enough vitriol on the acting of john cusack in the ostensible lead and although others have give it a brave try . his character be allege to be from new york and but talk nothing like a new yorker and and bad and be bemuse by everything . ( this do make it convenient for cusack and who thus have to wear only one facial expression for most of the movie . ) he be first bemuse by a man walk an invisible dog when in the street of his character allege hometown and people hold conversation with entire invisible people daily by the guy in the diner ( pretty fly for a white guy ) and and then by the concept that a zillionaire and especially in the south and would keep loaded weapon in the house . then and he completely miss the lady reference to her hormone shot and and thus get to be bemuse by her revelation and with which his line and she a he . and bludgeon u over the head . i have be to new york and and i can tell you that no true new yorker would be even mildly startle that somebody bear into a male sexed body can make an attractive and convincing female . ( technical note represent chablis isn not pre op and she non op . the book make it quite clear that although her sex and gender do not match and she have no desire to undergo expensive and risky and and painful sex reassignment surgery . ) when cusack discover his book in spacey library and youre not so much surprise that spacey own the book a you be surprise that cusack halfwit character could write an entire book all by himself . so and let see . what stereotype and clichés do we have and in just the first hour . 1. southerner and when not merely eccentric and be outright freakish . ( however and unlike boo radley or karl childers from sling blade and the guy who commit the murder can at least keep up a veneer of non freakdom . ) 2. fat black woman and when not feed horde of white people and be practice voodoo . 3. all trans gendered woman be entertainer and and have potty mouth . ( sorry and chablis . this one be at least in part your fault . ) 4. anybody from north of the mason dixon line be go to be completely stun to discover that southerner can be eccentric and freakish while apparently they have never have to sit through any movie like this one . i can not go on . you shouldn not and either . you should read the book and which actually treat all of it character a fully human and and doesn not labor under the necessity of cast the director daughter . i will admit and however and that have i not do so and i wouldn not have come on here and read the unintentionally hilarious review by the gentleman who complain that the cast and crew be full of liberal ( in a hollywood movie . shock . ) who seek to normalize homosexuality ( call me crazy and but i do not think spacey character be ever intend to be see a the most normal guy on the planet ) and and then rant on in the next paragraph about how the movie lack climax and and therefore he frustrate and unfulfilled . any freudian implication in this be leave a an exercise for the reader .