here a tip for all aspire screenwriter out there . if the middle part of your script really have nothing to do with the beginning or end and that mean you have write a bad movie and need to start over . the people behind klepto never learn that lesson and so they waste their time and mine making this dog of a film . it start out a the story of emily brown ( meredith bishop ) . she a young woman of average attractiveness who also happen to be a compulsive shoplifter . she doesn not steal for money and she just take thing to make herself feel well . emily be see a therapist and take an enormous amount of medication to deal with her ocd and but her need to steal be get bad and she become more reckless . when we find out her mother be come for a visit and witness a couple of flashback to emily childhood with a man who face we never see and it seem like klepto be go to be a family drama about the secret of the past and how they have shape a young woman in unfortunate way . however and the movie largely ignore all of that after the first 20 or so minute and instead focus on the story of nick diaz ( jsu garcia and whose first name appear to be miss at least one vowel ) . nick be a store security guard who see emily steal and let her get away with it because he inexplicably captivate by her and even though he actually pretty than she be . nick be a former criminal with a very bitter ex wife . he try to go straight and start his own security agency and when he not try to get into emily pant . nick can not get a bank loan and so he let his degenerate friend marco ( michael irby ) talk him into do a drug deal . the plan be that nick will get the money from an armenian gangster he know name ivan ( henry czerny ) and buy 20 thousand pill of ecstasy from one of marco contact and give ivan the pill and keep a cut of the money for themselves . thing go wrong and a couple of thing happen solely because the story need them to happen and and nick end up ask emily to steal something for him . at this point and the movie seem to suddenly remember it be suppose to be about emily and her compulsive shopper of a mother and theresa ( leigh taylor young ) and and the suppose secret of their family . the utterly underwhelming secret be reveal and nick demonstrates for the audience that most career criminal be immensely stupid and then the story end without ever come close to justify the hour and a half of my life i throw away watch it . with the director also be a co writer and the two lead also serve a producer and i think it fair to say that klepto be one of those movie that get make so the filmmaker can enter it into festival in the hope of get notice by some studio executive . but no studio executive and no matter how high on cocaine or distract by hooker and could ever look at this movie and think the people who make it be worth a minute of his time . this story have absolutely nothing intelligent to say about compulsive shoplifting and compulsive shopping or childhood memory . nick diaz story be nothing but a string of clichés interrupt only by moment when the almighty plot hammer blatantly push the story along . the acting be perfectly fine and but the only character who do anything even remotely interesting be a drug dealer play by michael e. rodgers . when the best role in your film be a bit part that barely on screen for 5 minute and that another sign you have write a bad screenplay . the direction of klepto be professional look but never more than ordinary and except for one long track shot that clearly in the movie just because the director want to show he could pull off a long tracking shot . the effect be a bit like make macaroni and cheese out of the box and throw a hot pepper in the mix and just for the heck of it . klepto be one of those movie that make you shake your head and shrug your shoulder . it doesn not have anything to say and yet also fail to say nothing in an intriguing or provocative way . give the time and energy and money that go into even a low budget film like this and it a mystery why any of the people involve ever think this be the movie to which they want to devote themselves .