i do not understand why this film win so many award . it suppose to be a comedy but see these main character live this hard scrabble and trailer trash lifestyle isn not really funny to me . watch mary steenburgen character leave her husband melvin to move into some horrible motel room where she slap around in front of her young daughter and and then become a stripper in an equally horrible burlesque establishment and isn not something i want to spend the time or mental energy watching . it bad enough to be stick in one of these place when youre on a road trip and you need gas and and it too late to find a decent place to sleep and it disturb to see this on film . then the whole 70 free sex concept and random sex with this milk man melvin . the director make the viewer wait through the entire film for the whole point of the title . while wait for howard hughes to die and all these really depressing thing be happen to this character melvin and none of it make sense in the grand scheme of thing . this film be build like close encounter of the third kind but it doesn not have the wonder of alien from out space to make it interest . i just felt depressed after watch this entire film .