Confusingly, Muhammad Ali is nowhere to be seen in this film. Or if he was in there I'd fallen asleep before he appeared.
A waste of a good cast. All of them tried their best, with the exception of Susan Sarandon who just played her standard 'Miserable Mother 1' role as seen in several other films.
The plot was implausible to say the least. I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the script writing sessions. Didn't anyone realise this was pants? "Wait a minute...you can't do that !"
We have a car crash. The boy dies. The parents (and the cops, fire service,medics and coroner ) fail to notice that a girl was in the car with him. How ? Did she walk off, or something ? Or get kidnapped by aliens ?
Were none of her belongings, purse, blood etc. found in the wreak ? Then the loopy mother spends all her time trying to interview the driver of the OTHER CAR, not the other person IN THE CAR, who has magically vanished. Somehow the other driver managed to have a chat with her son while succumbing to a cerebral bleed ( like you do ) and falling into an inconvenient coma.
Then it gets worse. The girlfriend turns up at the funeral, wearing a huge and obvious arm cast. No one asks who the hell she is. Then later she turns up at their house saying she is carrying the son's unborn child. Dad is completely shocked. Not even having noticed her at the funeral, never mind in the hospital where she must have been taken after the crash.
This preposterous plot could only have worked if the car crash had taken place on a frontier between two warring countries. Then the two occupants of the car MIGHT have plausibly ended up in separate hospitals. But this seemed to be set in the USA.
Apart from Cary Mulligan acting sexually aroused at the beginning, something very few US actresses would dare do, this film had no merits at all. If you blinked or came in late you would have missed this bit.
A waste of a good cast. All of them tried their best, with the exception of Susan Sarandon who just played her standard 'Miserable Mother 1' role as seen in several other films.
The plot was implausible to say the least. I would love to have been a fly on the wall during the script writing sessions. Didn't anyone realise this was pants? "Wait a minute...you can't do that !"
We have a car crash. The boy dies. The parents (and the cops, fire service,medics and coroner ) fail to notice that a girl was in the car with him. How ? Did she walk off, or something ? Or get kidnapped by aliens ?
Were none of her belongings, purse, blood etc. found in the wreak ? Then the loopy mother spends all her time trying to interview the driver of the OTHER CAR, not the other person IN THE CAR, who has magically vanished. Somehow the other driver managed to have a chat with her son while succumbing to a cerebral bleed ( like you do ) and falling into an inconvenient coma.
Then it gets worse. The girlfriend turns up at the funeral, wearing a huge and obvious arm cast. No one asks who the hell she is. Then later she turns up at their house saying she is carrying the son's unborn child. Dad is completely shocked. Not even having noticed her at the funeral, never mind in the hospital where she must have been taken after the crash.
This preposterous plot could only have worked if the car crash had taken place on a frontier between two warring countries. Then the two occupants of the car MIGHT have plausibly ended up in separate hospitals. But this seemed to be set in the USA.
Apart from Cary Mulligan acting sexually aroused at the beginning, something very few US actresses would dare do, this film had no merits at all. If you blinked or came in late you would have missed this bit.