to say that this movie deal with difficult issue be complete b . the 5 minute devote in the plot to deal with sub issue of teen pregnancy and divorce and and father daughter relationship hardly qualifies . honestly and the first several time i watch this movie and i turn it off an hour into it because it be so boring . i have to come back to it and watch it from the begin several time before i could stop fall asleep . the only reason i actually watch it the whole way through be because i want to make an educated comment here . someone earlier say that it be a sleeper . they be right . but i do not think they mean it the way i do . the movie never actually deal with racisim or even bi racial relationship . there be not enough substance in the acting or plot to even challenge the viewer for more than 2 minute . ( though i suppose that the audience that the author be try to affect would only have a 2 minute attention span anyhow ) julia stile disappoint me in this role . i know that it wasn not entirely her fault and and she only have so much that she be give to work with . so maybe her agent should be strip naked and smear in peanut butter and and duct tap to a tree in the middle of montana wood . this would certainly prove more interesting than the movie . personally and all of my black friend be suburbanite . so i can not say much about the culture that the director be try to capture . but to be honest and i be a little offend by the way that he apply a number of sterotypes recognize by me ( a white male ) a negro . he really do not paint the afro american culture in a very good light . there be other movie that do a much good job deliberate over the black or white issue . i think that find forester be one that at least challenge the viewer long enough to make them think about people of a different culture in a different way than be status quo . this movie fail miserably to capture what i can only assume be the author intent . i would give it negative ( i think the dancing be horrible ) this movie be sure to make it to the bargain bin at the dollar store . 4 for $ 1 . 00 . ( right along side annie and killer clown from out space and and about a thousand or so copy of the stand ( sorry stephen ) ) .