okay and i watch this just now and many and many year after see the big chill . maybe my expectation be too high and maybe i have see too many other good movie by sayles . i have to say i think this movie be seriously overrate . i understand why people would prefer this over tbc . the script be not bad and the camera work be not bad and the editing be not bad . a lot of the dialog be smart . unfortunately and when the dialog isn not smart and it downright smarmy and completely off the mark . but what make this a truly inferior movie be the act . jon lovitz it act . come to mind no more than ten minute into this movie . i couldn not get past the atrocious delivery and intonation and pacing and and fake emotion of just about every actor in this movie . just really and really bad . there no way to soft pedal . even the ( now ) reliable david strathairn will make you wince . i couldn not help think that this be one movie sayles could remake and greatly improve upon just by use good and professional actor . so and if youre like me and someone who actually think tbc be a good movie and and you have hear the return of the secaucus 7 praise a infinitely superior . . . low your expectation . perhaps you would not be quite so put off like i be .