A good movie

There was a time when Alison Lohman was one of the most promising actresses around. And then, back in 2009, she did a small part in the average ‘Gamer’, met her future husband Mark Neveldine who directed this flick, married the guy, got a kid, and since then she has never made any more movies. How sad is that? Lohman had her breakthrough in 2003 with ‘Matchstick Men’, one of the better movies directed by Ridley Scott, and a year before, she made this flick for which she delivered also a very strong performance. To be honest, the whole thing didn’t work perfectly, there were too many characters with not enough room for them all of them and some bits just didn’t work very well. Still, it is not very often that you get to see so many strong female characters played by a stellar cast (Robin Wright, Michelle Pfeiffer, Renée Zellweger). The best one was probably delivered by Michelle Pfeiffer who many thought would get an oscar nomination for her work (it didn’t happen after all because the movie was barely seen at the time) and she was indeed very strong here but I was still impressed by Alison Lohman who never got upstaged at any moment by those more experienced actresses. To conclude, I think this movie deserved more love and it is definitely worth a look.

7/10