i have moderately high expectation for this movie . i be spanish and and since paz vega have rapidly become in the last few year one of my country most popular actress and i couldn not help but wish that her jump to hollywood would be successful . also and the name of james l. brook suggest quality . this be a man who doesn not make film often and his fame be ground mostly on his tv show and so when he do and one tend to believe it because he really have something to say . sadly and the result of my expectation have be crush disappointment and for this film fail at so many level that i couldn not find anything to keep me interested . brooks direction and for example and seem to me amazingly clumsy and lack in rhythm . often you have the impression that the camera linger too long on the actor and and they do not know what to say and what to do or even where to stand . sandler and again surprisingly and be the only one to exercise restraint in his performance and in between leoni and vega terrible overact while both of them exaggerate their gesture so much you would think they be in a child play by adult ( actually and it seem to me the child in the movie be act much good than them and especially steele and who play sandler daughter with disarm charm ) . then again and good acting be not easy to achieve with a script this terrible represent the dialog felt sometimes so fake that you could see them make effort to sound half believable while the character be hardly develop or make almost cartoonish ( deb and tea leoni psychotic bundle of nerve of a wife would be the prime example ) while the situation often do not make sense ( flor attitude of fear and disdain towards deb be completely beyond reason and even to the point of bigotry . deb may be a neurotic and but flor have good reason to be very grateful to her ) while subplots branch out in several direction but never really go anywhere while and the big plot and the development of the romantic spark between the protagonist and felt rush and unrealistic and i simply could not believe a word of it . i just manage to bear the movie a it get bad and bad and be thankful when it end and which be when i realize that it do not just feel long to me while it also that the thing be way too long . thumb down to brook then and and good luck to paz next time and i hope this mistake doesn not stop her rise to stardom .