altman should go into retirement and as should scorsese and and all the other former great director who waste everyone time with their new material . this overlong and unfunny near mess start off with a half hour of pure tedium and in a sort of drive miss daisy vein while with an old woman and her loyal black friend . absolutely nothing happen in this part of the movie . i wish it have stay that way and because once thing start happen that be when the movie get really annoy . ( like sting famous song line represent life be easy when it be bore and or this film be easy when it be bore . ) the overly familiar plot already milk dry by the self copy hitchcock of an innocent man accuse of murder be just too stupid . it also sink any chance that the gag and the humour might have while but the joke be mostly mediocre so it doesn not matter . the other major problem with the movie be the rather blah cast represent julianne moore and glenn close and odonnell and that country singer and and bad of all liv tyler . while moore be convince a a semi retard woman and close be simply annoy in yet another wicked witch from the south role . odonnell be typically bland and while tyler be not only awfully miscast but a bad actress and as well . for altman to cast her a some white trash southern girl be an insane move . charles dutton have a very cliché role represent he be ultra kind and pure goodness and be intellectually superior to just about everyone without feel that way . and what an annoying plot point in the kid father not want to listen to what the kid have witness . plus and there be that annoy sporadic schmaltziness that any movie can do without . what a waste of time .