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Last of the Pagans (1935)
Fantastic film
I recently had the opportunity of viewing this film. It is in black and white and was made quite some time back, but is well worth seeing.
Concerning French Polynesia, much of the dialogue is non-English, and the translations are a bit scarce; but not needed much--the actions of the characters and what happens to them tells the story quite adequately.
The native men from one island go to another island to steal wives for themselves. The main male character, Taro, kidnaps a woman he especially fancies. She is very unhappy about this--and I fully expected him to drag her back to his island and immediately start raping her, but that is not how it happens. Instead, once he gets there, he courts her-and she begins to become quite taken with his charms.
However, there are white men looking for labor for their mines, and the chief in Taro's village is also taken with the woman Taro wants. You can be sure these things come to plenty of troubles for both Taro and his intended.
This film was quite different from any I have ever seen before. It was excellently done and well told and I would certainly recommend it.
Caught (2015)
Very good movie
This was a surprising good Lifetime Movie.
The actors/actresses all did an excellent job.
The pace was good.
The story was told in a clear, concise manner.
There were plenty of surprises, twists and turns in this suspenseful plot, which I thought worked well.
The actress playing the beautiful, blonde villain was very convincing as a manipulative psychopath with tunnel vision that focused completely on herself and what she wanted. She was also highly intelligent and as they encountered one problem after another she would always come up with a solution even when they're were in so deep there was no way out.
Tut (2015)
Absolutely Splendid
I would give this 20 stars if it were possible. I felt this was the best drama, with great acting, plot and action I have ever seen.
I totally loved this mini-series. All the actors did good jobs, but I was especially taken by Avan Jogik, who played King Tut. Not only is he a thrilling actor to watch, he is also one of the handsomest men ever on a screen. I think this actor will go far. I had not seen him before, but will certainly be watching for him in the future.
The series was riveting. It kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. The writing was excellent with the many twists and turns and great character development.
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
This film is a loser
This could have been a cute, funny film but the people who wrote it apparently didn't think anything could be funny unless it was also vulgar,crass and disgusting.
This film sinks to the lowest denomination possible with it's immature "bathroom" humor.
I was disappointed that the actors in this were willing to sink to this level.
Only watch if you enjoy being sickened by the crude scenes that are supposed to be humorous.
The only good thing about this film was when it finally came to an end.
Revelation: The End of Days (2014)
Good subject, poorly represented
I had looked forward to this mini-series. I like disaster films and what could be a better subject, but it was so poorly done it was virtually unwatchable. They decided to make it like a homemade documentary with the camera jumping around all over the place, characters poorly introduced and some scenes so dark the viewer could not tell what was going on. No real cohesive story telling, it jumps around as much as their camera shots.
I watched an hour of it before giving up, and will not bother with watching part 2.
A major disappointment.
The Scribbler (2014)
Dreadful film
I tried to watch this as a PPV film. I did so without bothering to read reviews on it; a mistake I hope I never make again.
I thought it would be interesting, but it was almost as crazy as the characters in it.
WARNING SPOILERS: These mentally ill characters are staying at a halfway house that was quite unbelievable because the place was a total dump, where the patients were completely unsupervised and wandered around nude, and with various animal pets. There is also one man living on the same floor with these women - which would never be allowed. However, we are not told whether or not this doctor who is treating these people is a charlatan.
I don't know if we ever get any background on these characters or not, I admit I turned it off about halfway through the movie.
When IT reached the point of brutalizing a dog, that was enough for me.
A Woman Betrayed (2013)
Not the worse film ever, but it had some problems
I don't think I really have any major spoilers in this review, but to be on the safe side I have given a warning--as perhaps someone who has not seen the film might not want to know even this much in advance.
This film is definitely a modern day tale--with a single, unmarried mother with a young son, struggling to try to meet the bills.
The story actually starts out pretty good.
Gwen works for an ins. agency, she has a mother she considers too controlling, a best female friend at the office, and she's trying to better herself by taking an on-line real estate course. In the meantime, she can't meet her mortgage. However, she refuses to consider selling the house and moving into something she could actually afford. How she was ever able to afford such an affluent house in the first place remains a mystery.
Then one day, out of the blue, she has a flat tire and this nice looking man happens along and changes the tire for her. Soon they're involved in a romance. Only he isn't who he seems, neither is another character in the storyline.
The problem is the writer gets a little too clever with the tale and it ends up being rather unbelievable. We also have no way out for the heroine beyond the villain spilling their guts--which I've always considered to be weak writing.
We also conveniently manage to come up with a new, albeit sudden romance for the heroine by the end of the film.
4 stars
Straw Dogs (2011)
Well, it ain't the origin, that's for sure
5 stars and that's being generous.
The original film with Dustin Hoffman was riveting. In this re-make, the script comes across as being written by someone who has never lived in the country and therefore finds the idea frightening. I grew up in the country, lived most of my adult life in the city, and then moved back to the country - and in all my years of country living I've never seen people behave like Charlie & his crew. If they did, we would have immediately fired them from the job.
Kate Bosworth is so skinny she needs to stand up twice just to make a shadow, yet this is the woman Charlie & his posse are lusting after.
Kate's character, Amy, is a spoiled, attention seeking individual and her husband, David, is a sort of weak, nerdy, self-involved writer--which adds up to some problems in their marriage.
This Straw Dogs version takes place in Mississippi with nary a southern accent anywhere in sight. The film is actually rather insulting to southerners - as most films are.
One of the characters is supposed to be a mentally disabled individual, the actor who played him did such a poor job I thought at first he was trying to pretend to be blind--since he wouldn't look at a person when they were speaking to him, but just stared straight ahead.
Alexander S.,who played Charlie did the best acting job in the film, plus we get the benefit of seeing him a lot without his shirt. Unfortunately, he is playing a villain, so the character is not likable, of course.
WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW
James Woods has reached the point in his career where he apparently can only get character roles in 2nd rate films. They decided in this version to have his character, Coach, be the main incentive behind the film's climax as to why Charlie and the boys attack David and his wife at their house.
As is frequently the case, during some of the more exciting action scenes, the lighting is kept so low you have to guess at what is happening.
Just how James Wood's Coach character could still function as he did following having boiling water thrown in his face is one of those "Hollywood neverminds" - meaning they hope you won't notice that piece of illogic.
I've seen worse films, but if you want to see a good film of Straw Dogs, I'd recommend the Dustin Hoffman version from 1971.
Amish Mafia (2012)
Amish Mafia - it's a real hoot
I don't care whether it's for real or not, and I don't see how it could be. However, the characters are a sheer delight to watch. It is highly entertaining.
Esther - is sort of the "moll" as they used to call the girlfriend of the gangsters back in the real Mafia days.
John - her brother - probably couldn't tie his own shoe laces without help.
Jolin - is a fascinating character with those big, powerful guns.
Alvin - a quiet, faithful 'foot soldier'
Merlin - he's an enigma wrapped up in a riddle! And there are others equally interesting.
But my absolutely favorite is Lebanon Levi. Lebanon is allegedly the leader of the Amish Mafia, but he gives the appearance of being a big, ol' teddy bear - even when he's hollering in John's face: "Don't be talking back!"
There are more contradictions than you could shake a stick at on this show. One example of many is Merlin, who "talks" to God, and recently got shunned - yet he apparently has never been baptized or he couldn't possibly be doing the things he is shown doing.
This is true for all of these people. If they were really Amish wouldn't they have to have either gotten baptized and joined the church or have had to leave the community by now? One would think so.
Many things are never really explained - like how Jolin, a Mennonite, is able to speak the low German/Pennsylvania Dutch language the Amish speak. That is - if all of them are really speaking that language, since I frequently detect words that are definitely English when they are supposed to be speaking only Amish German.
For entertainment value I think this show can't be beat.
8 stars - and it just keeps getting better and better!
Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda (2011)
Totally Love this Show
I'm a bit of a true crime fan anyway and Lt. Joe Kenda is absolutely my cuppa tea.
I love the droll manner in which he comments on the crime or more often the criminal(s). Lt. Kenda is who makes this show what it is - it would just be another whodunnit without him. He has such an entertaining personality - absolutely riveting.
I always make a point of watching whenever I see this show listed on the ID Channel.
For those who have not seen this show, I highly recommend it. Lt. Kenda is an older gentleman who does the commenting and narrative bits while a younger actor portrays him in the scenes.
While the crime is shown, it is not generally overly graphic.
Lt. Kenda has investigated over 400 homicides during his career and he knows how criminals' minds work. He knows all the "tells" when they're lying and exactly how to draw them out and get the truth of what really happened.
10 stars for Lt. Kenda Homicide Hunter!
Compulsion (2013)
Don't waste your time on this disgusting movie
I watched this film as a freebie from Dishnet. The ONLY good thing I can say about it is thank goodness I didn't pay for it! It was presented as being a drama/thriller with lesbianism--just my cuppa tea, or so I thought.
We only get to the lesbian sex in the last 15 minutes of this exceedingly repetitive and draggy film. They could have told the entire story in 30 minutes WITH commercials, BUT that's not what turned me so totally against this film.
The Amy character is completely OBSESSED with cooking and food, the Saffron character just wants to no longer exist. Put two & two together and you can easily come with four regarding where this disgusting, sick storyline is headed.
Watch it you have a strong stomach and like sick, twisted, disgusting stories!
1 star - only because I couldn't vote any lower.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
A different kind of horror film
This film is highly disturbing on many levels. However, I think the two young actors who portrayed the son - both deserve Oscars.
The thing I disliked the most about this film was the overuse of red - made to look like blood - whether it was tomatoes, paint or something else. This was pushed into our faces constantly.
The second thing I disliked about this film - was the constant shifting back and forth from present to past.
That people would be so lacking in any compassion or sympathy for the mother amazed me. I felt very sorry for her - from the time the son was a baby. For reasons that eluded me, the son seemed to always hate the mother, but liked the father; well, actually, I suppose as he was capable of liking anyone. I'm not really certain he even liked his father.
A shocking film that was pretty much ripped from today's headlines - given all of the similar crimes that have taken place in the USA, recently; although I understand it is based on a novel.
The ending is perhaps as shocking as anything in the film.
It would have earned a much higher rating from me if not for the constant red and the constant back-and-forth between present and past. I found both of those things so annoying, I can only give it a rating of: 5 Stars.
Liz & Dick (2012)
A good portrayal of Burton and Taylor
I've seen movies that were far worse than this one. Actually, I did not have a problem with the acting - and while the dialog was trite - I could well imagine Richard Burton speaking that way. BTW the actor playing him had a voice VERY similar to the real Richard Burton.
IMO - what was wrong with this film was that it was boring -- and that was because the two people being portrayed were boring. They were two of the most self-interested, spoiled, self-involved, materialistic, shallow, selfish and immature people I have seen portrayed in a film in some time. 99% of the time they had no concern about anyone or anyone else's feelings, beyond themselves. Such people are invariably boring but I thought they did a splendid job as far as coming across as really being Liz and Richard.
I also found it interesting that some family members were leeches who lived off of Richard and Elizabeth. Elizabeth's mother, being an older woman may have had no choice, but what was Richard's brother, Ifor's (unusual name) excuse?
Racing Daylight (2007)
Interesting, but confusing
This is a rather unusual film - which seems to be about reincarnation and ghosts.
It starts off rather interestingly - with a character named Sadie Stokes, a woman I would guess to be in her mid-40s. Sadie seems to be a rather lonely person, apparently shy and with no friends, despite the fact she's lived in the area her entire life.
Sadie is very much in love with a man named Henry but too shy to even speak to him. Henry is played by David Strathairn - who has the most beautiful brown eyes framed by gorgeous black eyebrows - I think I have ever seen. I was never clear on exactly what Henry's character does for a living - possibly a mechanic.
Sadie seems to work in a bookstore as near as I could tell and lives with her grandmother, who is severely senile (hiring someone to stay with the woman during the time she works.) But, perhaps Sadie has lived before. She begins to have what are either flashbacks, hallucinations, memories or time-traveling experiences. It seems that in a past life she was a woman named Anna. That all of these people have lived before and been involved with each other is the theme of the film.
As it turns out, Anna and a man named Harry were madly in love with one another back during Civil War times. However Harry was killed, perhaps, this is never made clear. At any rate, Anna married his cousin, Edmond -who was also madly in love with Anna.
After that, things become even less clear. The film fails to follow a linear storyline, and we appear to be shown different versions of what happened to these people.
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
Goes Nowhere, Means Nothing
If you enjoy watching films that have absolutely no conclusion to them whatsoever - then this is the movie for you.
It crawls along at a snail's pace, moving as slowly as the wagons that were going westward and it has no ending. We just walk along with these desperate people mile after gritty mile getting nowhere.
The characters are so poorly formed and so poorly introduced to the audience, I never did really sort out who all of them were, or their relationships to each other. As it turned out it didn't make a hair's worth of difference.
Several of the scenes are at night, where the screen is so black you wonder if the film broke.
The plot, what little there was, involves three wagons of people going westward. We have one couple that has a young boy named Jimmy, another couple with an older man and younger woman, apparently fairly newly married. The third couple I never got acquainted with enough to know who they were or anything about them, not that we ever learn much about any of these people. One of the women is pregnant but like everything else in this movie this fact plays no role in the film - either in character development, plot or anything else.
There is also their guide, a Mr. Meek, with a bushy beard and even bushier hair down to his shoulders. His hair looked as if it had not seen a comb since the day he was born.
Meek has apparently convinced these 3 wagon loads into taking some shortcut, but the further they go with him the more they doubt he has a clue as to where they're at.
They encounter a lone Indian and have hopes perhaps he will lead them eventually to water, although some of them are convinced he will lead them into an ambush. He goes stumbling off and they go stumbling after him. Then after several miles of this, we come to the words "The End." This has to be one of the worst films I've ever seen.
ONE STAR - and it really doesn't even deserve that.
Stone (2010)
Complete crap and nonsense
WARNING! Major spoilers in this review.
The only thing good in this movie is Robert De Niro, and even he couldn't save it from the exceedingly confusing and down right stupid script. Please note I did not say plot, because it barely has one.
De Niro plays a man named Jack, who is some kind of prison official, exactly what his title is, is unclear like most of the film. He seems to be assessing prisoners as to whether they should be released on parole or not.
He interviews Edward Norton's character, Gerald, who calls himself Stone, several times, (in fact we never see him interview any other prisoners), with Norton's character spouting such lunacy it's a wonder he isn't in the mental ward. Norton's annoyingly raspy voice made me just want to give him a good dose of cough syrup.
Jack has more than a few mental problems himself. Back when his wife wanted to leave him, he picked up their sleeping child and threatened to throw her out a window if she did. Jack's woebegone worn-out wife then backed down and continued to stay with him. He has no interest in her whatsoever, so the viewer is left to wonder why he wanted to force her to stay with him.
Stone has this ravishingly sexy wife, Lucetta, and you know something's going to happen between her and Jack; and of course it does.
Now, this would lead one to logically conclude that it would not be in Jack's best interest to release Stone, since that would interfere with his affair with Stone's wife. So one would think Lucetta is going to have to use some leverage here and blackmail Jack into releasing her husband; but no - that never happens.
Instead, Jack just goes ahead and releases Stone and ends his affair with Lucetta.
Now Stone's crime when he was young is never made clear - but it seemed to involve him, and someone called Teach, in the murder of Stone's grandparents and then the house being set on fire to try to cover up the crime. Motive? We never know.
So what happens after Stone gets released? Well, Jack's house burns down. Did Stone set the fire? We never find out.
Throughout this blundering mess of a movie - there is the reoccurring theme of religion and God, but never in a way that really adds up to much of anything or makes any kind of real sense. The message seems to be that God speaks to you - that it can start with a small sound like the buzzing of a bee. What does this have to do with the rest of the characters' situations? Absolutely nothing - it's just drivel to try to make you think this movie is actually saying something when it isn't and to try to detract from the fact the plot line is virtually non-existent.
1 star - because I couldn't give it anything lower!
The Perfect Host (2010)
One twist & turn too many
WARNING - major spoilers in this review - read only if you have already seen the film.
I was amazed by the small number of reviewers who did not see that the dinner host also being the detective - was TOO BIG of a coincidence.
This film starts out very well. We have a wanted criminal (bank robber), who ends up being the victim in another robbery, and then goes on to become a victim yet again of a man that he dupes into allowing him into his house.
However, the game the "host" is playing goes on far too long - and then we start having other twists and turns until the plot is completely unbelievable and no longer really working at all. The writers tried to be too clever and ended up ruining what could've been a fine idea.
3 Stars for this failure.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Once I understood it--I totally LOVED this film
The first time I saw this film I thought it was very bad, and I did not understand it then I read some posts at the discussion board about it and not only watched it again, but read the story on which it was based.
I ended up going from my original 1 star rating to a 10 star rating.
I became totally enthralled with this film and this story once I finally understood what it was about.
Keith Carradine as Marvin Macy, is totally HOT. He is broodingly handsome and how Miss Amelia could resist him, I can't even imagine. However, she is besotted by Lyman a "little person", back then referred to as a dwarf--possibly a distant cousin--who has turned up in her life unexpectedly.
Lyman is sometimes unkind to Miss Amelia. He also leeches off her while trying to attract the attentions of Marvin Macy. Yes, there are some marvelous homosexual undercurrents in this story that I completely missed the first time around.
Marvin is obsessed with Amelia but he's flattered by Lyman's interest in him.
Unfortunately no love scenes occur between any of the characters, but it is still a fascinating character study.
Eventually this develops into a jealous, obsessive love triangle with some very unexpected results, and tragic conssequences.
Southern Gothic at its best!
Terra Nova (2011)
Watchable but nothing great
The fact I was able to sit through it for an entire two hours says something in its favor. However, it was not as good as I had hoped it would be, and was not quite what I expected. I get the impression they're trying to be another "Lost" - the sixers are very similar to 'the others' on "Lost." I thought this was going to be about a small group of people, who for whatever reasons, had to escape into the past - and that they were going to be on their own in a primitive and dangerous landscape - where they were going to have to start from scratch – and with a lot more dinosaurs and other dangerous beasts like the saber-toothed tiger, etc. And that they might even have to live in a cave for a while.
Instead, we have two large groups - with more arriving - living inside a protected compound with some kind of political (or something of that sort) warfare going on between the two groups - and of course our typical nuclear family. None of the family is particularly appealing or interesting. It's basically just the same old, same old family relationships.
Since the human beings have already completely screwed up their present world - I see very little point in them going back in time and screwing that up as well. At least it is some other time-stream so supposedly their actions do not affect the present world.
I would like to know how working as a doctor every day around other people she was able to totally conceal the pregnancy of that third child. Which, in my opinion was a very foolish and totally selfish thing for them to be doing.
I also would like to know what the white things hanging down from the ceilings are about.
The teenagers in the show are particularly annoying and stupid - as they always are in today's television programs and films.
I also figure it would be absolutely impossible in the 22nd century to be able to escape from a maximum security prison in the 1st place and not be immediately caught in the 2nd place. Nothing really indicates these people are from the 22nd century.
As usual, the viewer must suspend belief in regards to this series as is true for most films and TV programs, particularly ones of this type.
5 stars
Sweet Karma (2009)
Good action film with a difference
I was very surprised that this film has such a low rating. I think it is excellent for what it is - a tough action film.
What I especially liked about this film was that the main character is a woman, with a hint of lesbianism about her, who knows how to take care of business. Realistic? Heck no - but how many action films are? Could Karma really physically overpower the various thugs she comes up against - I seriously doubt it - but it doesn't matter. The fun in this film is that these guys are total scumbags and you know she's going to get them - you look forward with eager anticipation to the moment when she does.
I felt beautiful Shera Bechard did an excellent job as Karma Balint, a mute Russian woman, I was also quite taken with the handsome and talented John Tokatlidis as William and thought Christian Bako, who played Tomas, made him an interesting character as well.
I also thought the twist just before the end of the film was quite creative; I certainly wasn't expecting it.
The only two things that I have minor quibbles with is the fact I think they would've had more dimension with their heroine if she had not been mute and I definitely would've liked more background information on Karma. Why was she able to handle herself so well when it came to dealing with these thugs? What did she do in Russia? Had she been trained in fighting skills? Had she been a secret assassin in Russia? What was her background and history? We are told that she was mute from birth, and we understand her motivation for being in Toronto but beyond that we know virtually nothing.
The lack of background on the main character is why I gave this 9 stars rather than 10.
Triangle (2009)
Not even worth the three stars I gave it
Major spoilers in this review - do not read if you have not seen the film.
This mess of a film stars Melissa George, whose idea of acting is to go around with her lips slightly parted all the time,revealing her rabbit teeth, like she is a chronic mouth breather, or perhaps she simply cannot close her mouth because of too much collagen injection in the upper lip.
As some other reviewers here have pointed out, this film has loopholes so big you could throw several basketballs through them quite easily.
In fact, even the writer loses track eventually and has the "Jess", who has finally figured out what is happening get thrown overboard by the other "Jess", who knows only a very small part of what is going on.
When the two Jess's battle each other, the one who already knows what is going to happen next should have therefore known every move that would be made by the Jess she is fighting and therefore she should not have been the one who went over the side of the ship.
Then the writer apparently doesn't realize he had the Jess who knows what is going to happen next the one who went over the side, because he acts as if the 'Jess', who only knew part of what was going on is the Jess who knew everything, but we can clearly see the difference between these two Jess's because the one who knew what had been happening is wearing a hood in this 2nd scene of her going overboard.
Jess also has at least two or three opportunities to kill one of the other Jess's - has the gun aimed right at another Jess - and yet while she can kill everybody else without a qualm - she never kills one of the Jess's until much, much later, not even on the ship.
If she had only killed the first Jess she saw who was doing the shooting maybe that would've changed things.
As it is, both the character, Jess, and the long-suffering audience are forced to re-live this endless loop in which they are all caught up.
Furthermore, we are never given any really good explanation for any of it. Why is Heather on the boat but not on the ship? For that matter, why are any of the other people on the ship? We do eventually get the impression that perhaps Jess is there as punishment for her mistreatment of her young son, but the other people? There is no reason for them to be in the loop except for them to be killed over and over again.
For that matter, Jess' idea that killing everyone is going to stop the loop is absurd.
The Vicious Kind (2009)
Good, Until....
Warning - Spoilers in this review.
This film is quite good, until they go romping off into fantasy-land with it - with the old, tired myth that women like to be treated like dirt and are always attracted to men who treat them that way - along with the equally absurd idea that such misogynistic, self-centered men are always far better lovers than the nice guy(s).
We began the film with Caleb (excellently portrayed by Adam Scott),revealing how much he hates women and warning his younger brother, Peter, about his new girlfriend Emma - whom Caleb has never even met.
We get an excellent look at Caleb's unstable mental state throughout the film - however, I got the impression the writer did not realize how psychotic Caleb's behavior was. Apparently, the writer saw Caleb as just a typical "bad boy" with some problems due to what happened between his parents.
If the writer had followed through with Caleb's increasingly erratic behavior to what should have been its ultimate conclusion - this film would've gotten ten stars from me instead of eight.
When we meet Caleb and Peter's father Donald - we see an older version of Caleb - and begin to realize at least partly - why Caleb behaves as he does.
Peter's girlfriend, Emma, who is a psychology student, comes from a family that is dysfunctional as well - but obviously she hasn't met 'dysfunction' until she gets mixed up with Caleb and Donald and their family dynamics.
This is a film I think anyone who's interested in psychology would find quite fascinating - even though it veered from reality with Emma's behavior in regards to Caleb.
8 Stars
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
Far more silly than funny
I think you have to be big fan of Gene Wilder to care for this film. I found it so silly and repetitive I turned the last 30 min. of it off. (it was being shown on cable TV.) Gene Wilder's idea of acting is for him and everyone else in the film to constantly bug their eyes out and behave in an immature and hysterical manner.
The idea in regards to this story should have been funny but the execution fell short. The idea revolved around Rainbow Studios wanting to find their own Rudolph Valentino - so they offer a screen test to any man who will show up.
Gene Wilder's character, who is called Rudy Valentine, decides to go to Hollywood, taking his wife, played by Carol Kane,(who unknown to him, is in-love with Rudolph Valentino) along with him. this results in totally unbelievable shenanigans, that unfortunately were not particularly humorous.
Closed for Winter (2009)
Not much to it
The film's plot, such as it is, revolves around a teenage or pre-teen girl named Frances, who disappeared some twenty years ago and the profound effect it had and continues to have on her mother and younger sister, Elise. Elise is now an adult but we have flashbacks throughout the film.
Eventually some extremely vague hints are made regarding some things that might have happened to Frances prior to her disappearance - but nothing is ever clearly stated.
So what happened to Frances? Well, nobody ever really says - suicide, murdered, snatched by someone, or ran off? Just go with whichever one of those strikes you.
The film is more watchable than some films out there - but I would not particularly recommende it. What it mostly has going for it is that it contains no graphic sexual or violent scenes.
4 Stars