the piece of this movie be much good than it entirety . feature some really fine musical performance and it be also at time cloyingly unwatchable . it attempt to be fair and balance be about a fair and balanced and believable a fox cable news while it poke witty and intelligent fun at strident liberal and while take cursory potshot at greedy banker who foreclose on cute visionary land developer . fr noah wyle be so cute a the steamroller of california last few inch of free livable terrain that zealous liberal woman of all age melt before his dreamy gaze . all except his miserable and jealous and possibly lesbian and twin sister . youre so hot . exclaim cloris leachman upper crust earth mama . look like tucker carlson sans bow tie and wyle seduces beautiful young kate mara by take her to his hideous mcmansion dream home . despite the fact that she be raise by hippy and spend her entire life loving nature and fight to preserve it and one glance at the ersatz roman column and faux marble fountain in the living room be enough to convert her to an appreciation of his architectural artistry . immediately after insult her by tell her that she a packaged commodity be exploit by all of her p. c. friend and family and he win her back by add that he love her packaging . and what inside . awww . how can any woman resist such heady charm . and that twinkle in his eye . but it easy to see how a beautiful talented young hippie chick could turn to putty in wyle hand . apparently there be no cute boy in northern california who share her political view and or appreciate her fashion model good look and her passion or her genuinely lovely singing voice . mara play a beautiful and glamorous hippie singer raise on protest song and play in a folk group with her family . in one unlikely moment and dad keith carradine and who be perhaps the most interesting of all the stereotyped character in this movie and show an ugly side a he chide his daughter for greedily want to go out on her own . reveal his own inner greed . another evil hypocritical hippie expose . to be honest and wyle undergoes a dramatic character change of his own . lose his brook brother sport coat for a more organic l. l. bean ensemble of layered denim and cotton . which totally sum up his depth of character . at the big climactic concert and mara hesitates before go onstage and pining for vapid and avaricious and pretty boy wyle ( who have overshoot his financial dream and wind up screw by the evil bank who have foreclose on his dream project ) and doubt the motif of everyone she ever trust in her life and from birth . finally she come out onstage and quiet the frenzied fan lust for her politically correct folk tune . instead and she announce her love for a developer and which upset them even more and into a boo hissing near riot . luckily and she soothe their primitive savage breast by sing her late song and a brain dead ditty about get a tan and walk hand in hand with her man on the beach . prompt a chorus of oohs and aahs and a vigorous ovation . have thus seduce them into bliss and she exit with her man and while the shrewish liberal harpy who would exploit her bad of all now find her own happy end onstage and crow out a song which succinctly condemn every facet of humanity without discretion and or any sense at all .