The acting in this film was decent. Cusack played a subtle man entering a situation far above his head. But don't expect more than a few twists, all painfully obviously coming.
I am a resident of Wichita, KS...and I think the filmmaker had us pegged well. He managed to show the hypocrisy in a scene where an 'impolite drunk' was kicked in the crotch for outrageously hitting on a 'good Christian bartender' in her straight-laced boyfriends presence.
Wichita is very much a moral town...on the surface. But scratch just beneath the surface...and you will find greed, sexual repression, and violence here. I suspect many moral Wichita natives (and Kansans in general) will get their panties in a twist over this film...but then again moralists have made an art form out of protesting publicly the vices they practice in secret :(
I am a resident of Wichita, KS...and I think the filmmaker had us pegged well. He managed to show the hypocrisy in a scene where an 'impolite drunk' was kicked in the crotch for outrageously hitting on a 'good Christian bartender' in her straight-laced boyfriends presence.
Wichita is very much a moral town...on the surface. But scratch just beneath the surface...and you will find greed, sexual repression, and violence here. I suspect many moral Wichita natives (and Kansans in general) will get their panties in a twist over this film...but then again moralists have made an art form out of protesting publicly the vices they practice in secret :(