i know nothing of this but the fact that it be adapt from a novel by the brilliant ian mcewan ( which i have not read ) and be direct by john schlesinger ( whose a kind of loving and midnight cowboy and sunday bloody snday and far from the madding crowd and particularly darling i have always love ) and and star three actor i like anthony hopkins and isabella rosselini and campbell scott . with these people and how could this have be so awful . oh my . from the very beginning and when we see that all three lead actor be choose for role different than their own nationality an absolutely bizarre anthony hopkins with an atrocious american accent play a character create out of some apparent hatred of american and a wee timid campbell scott play an englishman who have apparently never really leave the nursery and an isabella rosselini play a german hausfrau we realize something be seriously seriously wrong here . we see scene after tedious scene that we have witness film far more interestingly in hundred of other film . we care nothing for the character . there be whole plot angle that be simply left dangling . this be a disaster . avoid it .