typically elaborately craft hbo production with a first rate cast and a rich small town atmosphere and some nice narrative vignette and grace by above average production value . but and and that a huge but and the various subplots and people with some likable and mostly annoying caricature and be paper thin and go and and on in dull stretch for over three long hour . the often silly story veers uneasily between melodrama and without be entertain enough and and personal drama and without be profound at all . a shame and because some scene really shine . two or three and that be . 4 out of 10 grubby paul newman .