a feminist tract in which if you the viewer believe that represent i ) wild animal be seldom tame by sing but instead attack and kill and eat ( the line that grizzly never attack unless provoke be a hoot unless provoke mean that it see flesh ) while ii ) homosexuality be both immoral per se and it acceptance almost always associate throughout history with sign of a society dissolution and decay iii ) few woman be bisexual ( in this one and virtually every woman be present a have no preference for men or woman ) iv ) divorce be far bad than infidelity v ) land be there for human being to use and develop and enjoy vi ) it be a incumbent upon a mother of an adult son to keep in touch a it be upon the son vii ) a mother raise her son alone be an unfortunate and real tragedy for the child viii ) the idolization of a parent for worthwhile ideal be a good and healthy thing ix ) adult continue to bear a responsibility for their sexual behavior and no matter their age and and the duty to engage in this most intimate and give of act only within the most intimate and openly sacrificial of relationship represent marriage believe me and you be not go to like this film . essentially it a howard stern sort of fellow who be bring down by a jane fonda sort of woman ( think the electric horseman ) . it ugly stuff because the value and the ideal and of the screenplay be all so harmful . i share the other objection about the odd thing in the writing represent a ) why would this man lose every girlfriend he have because he refuse to reveal that his mother death and funeral cause him to be unable to keep date with them . it a mystery why he just keep say it be personal when face with angry and disappointed woman . huh . b ) there an enormous inconsistency ( i. e. and the screenwriter want to have it both way ) by tell u that the protagonist mother love the father with everything she have and then later be tell that there be only one great love in her life her lesbian girlfriend . c ) the underlying legal assumption be nonsense . be never tell that the executor have any right to live at the property merely that she shall determine the timing of the sole heir title and right to occupy the property . yet somehow the film make it appear that the executor be the rightful occupant which be crazy . ( try to think of any executor of any will who use the decedent property before the will bequest be fulfil it doesn not happen ) . d ) the assumption throughout this film be that woman be equally draw to men and woman it just absurd . thus and be tell represent i ) that penelope ann miller character be date other men near the end of the film after have be with the decedent for five year and before that in a fulfilling relationship with the protagonist and ii ) that the protagonist housekeeper after be devote throughout her adult life to her kind husband be now date another woman iii ) that one girlfriend upset with the protagonist would now therefore like to try a woman . iv ) that a male transsexual be eager to date the protagonist v ) that mary kay place character naturally look at other woman in college ( and they look back she say with an idiotic triumphal flip of the head ) . this be all just ridiculous . i agree with others about the sound of the dvd ( i have to keep it at maximum volume and repeatedly rewind to understand name and phrase ) . this be a film by someone who really despise traditional heroic by any man and hat the notion that a man be need to raise a child and loathe the idea that there be any necessary connection between marriage and sex . the film be out to preach and that kind of propaganda of false message doesn not sit well .