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Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lara Flynn Boyle, Camryn Manheim
When a young woman rejects her current overweight suitor in a restaurant, he unexpectedly places a curse on her. The film then moves on to her sisters. One is a happily married woman with a psychiatri...( read more
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Disturbing and awkward to watch, this isn?t to everybody?s taste but it is darkly hilarious. Todd Solondz is the king of black comedy. Don't say I didn't warn you though!
One of the most disturbing movies I've seen. I watched this with about half a dozen friends, and afterword we all looked at each other with the collective understanding that we needed group therapy.
What a great family film...LOL, are you kidding me? Don't let the cover fool you, this is one fucked up movie! Murder, rape, suicide, depravity, child molestation. This movie is like "American Beauty" but on crack. Sick thing too is that this movie is actually funny as well, but ...( read more)
An extraordinarily matter-of-fact study of our relationships with our private parts/brains. The places they drag us and the feelings we feel as this occurs. Even Lovitz is brilliant here and we only see him for 5 minutes or so.
A much too long pretentious bleak comedy which follows three sisters and their very different lives. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was his normal character he does so well. A lot of depravity in these girls lives (a dog eating a boy's sperm, anyone?), but the best was the Mr Garrison s...( read more)
It's refreshing that someone deals with taboo subjects in such a brutally honest way. And it's not easy to combine serious issues and subtle humour in the way Todd Solondz does here. It is absolutely brilliant! I've found myself a new director that is king of black humour!
Hilarious film about pedophilia, rape, masturbation, and death. It's shocking as hell, but it doesn't exploit it's subjects. Very challenging piece of filmmaking with one hell of a cast.
