if you like confuse flashback and good cinematography and competent acting and like to solve puzzle and this may be the film for you . the problem with this production be that after you take the time to solve the puzzle you realize that you have be be con . there really be nothing to do this other than the idea of show a part of new orleans that doesn not revolve around mardi gras and bourbon street and romance or the conflict between cajun and black and redneck and old plantation owner . once you get past those thing you realize that new orleans be just a regular city with good and bad quality but just a little flashy than cincinnatti or louisville . the story and if you can call it that and revolve around a promising pro golfer who get bounce off the tour because he want to search for the meaning of life and decide to drink along the way . the way bring him into a relationship with two sister who he go to grade school or something with and a possibly closet gay attorney and jared harris . who have also fall victim to the evil of drink . oh and his late father be of course a groundskeeper at a wealthy country club which the two sister be member of . there be some scene of him campbell scott and our hero and run to find a train constantly block his path across the track and of course a seer comment that another will be along when he miss a ride on the trolley . and of course when he do get across the track he find himself in a flophouse with the po folk and be rescue by one or the other of the two sister . then the attorney may or may not have be kill so the local police naturally think he may or may not have do it for the insurance money . make sense so far . well there be also two escapee from one of jack kerouac bad dream who be also suspect and a family friend who be a drug dealer with guilt feeling . the writer throw those character in to make a gullible viewer and like myself and think this be an art film and have some kind of deep meaning . david lynch often do that too a witness the success of blue velvet . but be advise i give this a negative only because the photography be very good and the cast obviously need the money and try very hard . if you be worried about your 401k monies or your bar tab and do not rent this .