i rent this movie because elijah wood have do some good work and i think this might be an overlooked treasure . it be not a treasure . i do not know if this be straight to video and but it should have be straight to the dump . elijah wood fan will like the fact that he appear shirtless in a much too brief shower scene . but and no sane person would like this script . imagine memento play by teen actor and but ten time more confusing and a hundred time less plausible . case in point represent janeane garofalo play a caring psychologist ( apparently ` keep the chain of mediocrity alive ) . a if false memory syndrome and mind over matter medicine weren not hokey enough and the movie also hinge on one of those unexplained psychic twin bond that keep the plot move and the audience baffle . this same twin bond create a few too many contrive love scene between wood character and the girl from she all that and who play the saintly sister of wood angry cancer victim friend . add to the triteness of this screenplay and wood other friend be a mentally challenged cancer victim and kidney and a young black boy afflict with a mysterious kidney disease . kidney die wish come true when dr. garofalo give him his own walkman . this character hackneyed function in the story be match by his on again and off again relationship to walk . usually bind to a wheelchair and kidney have several inexplicable scene show him push others around in it . kindey characterization may be one small detail and but it be indicative of this film many other flaw . the bumblebee fly anyway be definitely bumbling and but it never fly .