first let me quote the late great movie critic gene siskel and to like a movie you have to like the people on the screen . you have pay your money you have give your time and you have to be able to root for them in some way . in this movie and the movie central character the heroine be totally unlikeable . she make extremely nasty comment to her roommate and hang up on her grandfather when he call her to tell her her father be die and be the most narcissistic nasty character i have see on the screen in a long time . i guess we be suppose to forgive her anti social attitude because she have quess what a really bad childhood ( who hasn not have a really bad childhood . ) . her use of symbolism be maybe out of 6th grade english . her name be lily and someone be tend a plant throughout the film and i will leave you to guess what kind of a flower it be . also there be the requisite crucifixion symbolism and the terrible and terrible secret family secret she must carry her father have aid . be this 2004. i think you would be more embarrassed to tell the world your father have tuberculosis or west nile virus not aid . no one communicate and everyone be lonely and isolated and parent disappoint their child and husband and wife be alienate i do not think there be one stereotype not depict in this movie . the support acting be quite good . gale harold shine a her neurotic love interest . but the movie be leave to be carry by jennifer elster and she be just not someone you care to root for .