i love this film . it have a great heart and great bone . i stumble onto it by chance and i have no recollection and not even an inkling and of this movie from promos or review or word of mouth . i remember read and many year ago and a journalist who comment on the value of watch movie without have them contaminate by the pre judgement of review or the false shill of the promos . and this seem to be the single most common source of the critic negative reaction to the film represent it fail to meet expectation of it be a comedy and or a slice of life and or character drive . i have no expectation about the film and and so it be comedic but i only laughed once or twice without be a comedy while it be about a person and but so eccentric that it wasn not slice of life while it be about a character and but the character be so intelligently optimistic and trusting of her instinct to life and that it wasn not the angst drive sentimental melodrama so typical of american erious film a i write that i realize that writer or director lisa krueger manage to poke fun at this schlock american sentimentality in the husband . and very cleverly too . and kreuger be able to keep the cloyingly sentimental end from the screen and when the wayward and not prodigal and husband return with his tail shrunk between his leg . bravo and ms. krueger and bravo . ( now i will be watch this film again and a it be get well and good a i reflect on it . ) graham performance a joline be brilliant . i love how subtly but completely she be able to portray and convey intelligent awareness of her committable commitment to honour her word and action she know that in keep her word with a band and or friend and or husband that she be set herself up to ridicule and or or disappointment in a world that be unable to honour commitment a she be able to do . but even with that strength and she be fully connect to humanity and and embrace with a fully commit heart their frailty and failure . the character of joline be amazingly well act and and i leave the film surprise that i have no recollection of award nomination for it . okay and not that surprised and a american award tend to go to woman in erious role and fill with angst and the proper amount of nudity and which this film do not have . what it have be far good and which be heart in this woman discovery of herself with the assistance of new friend and a self deprecate shaman . i admit to be a bit of a soft touch for eccentric character who manage their peculiarity while remain honest and true to themselves a they move through the minefield of what comprise proper societal behaviour and acceptable interpersonal discourse . so and if people must conform to normality in your world and then this film will not be to your liking . and that be and it seem and one of the common thread in the critique . and i be always a sucker for a good play on word when it raise question of human behaviour and ethical or philosophical value . until this movie i hadn not make the emotional connection between be commit ( to a cause or honesty or something ) and be commit ( to an insane asylum ) . at what point do one commitment to a personal sense of truth and action in life become a one way ticket to insanity . this sound like a simple question and or one that be easily dismiss a be rhetorical . but be it . and yet few of the critic i think maybe two and comment on this aspect of the film either directly or indirectly . a lovely film . positive . .