Reviews

Jeff Bridges, whom I adore as an actor, is forced to play some awful unbelievable author who apparently is famous for writing the most horrendous story for a child I have ever seen...who varies daily between ignoring or brain washing his own little girl because he is some manipulative psycho...he, who has a wife (KIM Bassinger)that obviously has had a complete breakdown and is in serious need of medical attention, but is ignored and enabled and manipulated into slowly drifting into horrible neglect of her daughter, an inappropriate son like sexual affair with a strange boy who she likens to one of her favourite dead sons, and virtual insanity and eventual abandonment of her child...Kim Bassinger is a hapless helpless victim of this maniacal man...a man I might continue...who "lures" some eager student,with the promise of making him a great writer into his horrid life but really only wants him to be his driver and his wife's sex therapist? Can this get more unreal...but no add on a man an author who is also a painter...who takes women and pretends to paint them as models while actually manipulating them into sexual relationships only to end up slowly humiliating them, destroying their confidence, betraying their trust, violating them, truth be told...

This brief rant of mine doesn't even touch on the completely unreal characters of the boy the wife the daughter the baby sitter...all who apparently just stand by and watch him do all these horrible things to each of them and do nothing but one sorry act of keeping one silly picture for a tormented child in the end?? Good grief......This film was an absolute mess of totally self absorbed people who were completely manipulated and completely self centered and completely unrealistic!! Thankfully unreal; because if you knew anyone like any of them ...for god sakes run and please, please, take that poor child with you don't just give her some picture and leave her with him...... arghhhhhhhhhh hated this film....in so many ways...