Very strange film and it dragged on a bit, but it still had something about it that made it barable to watch.

Falls far short of expectations, definitely a case of trying too hard to be quirky and indie without finding a reason to.

"This is among the most loathsome films of the year, something of a Hollywood facsimile of Tideland, only Terry Gilliam's gothic upchuck was not so dense as to make any pretense to reality." - Ed Gonzalez

funny funny stuff..

This was supposed to be a true story, but I had trouble believing it. Then I read an article where the family portrayed in the movie refuted a lot of the details. Lucky for them, the movie didn't do very well anyway.

Tried really hard to be quirky and clever, succeeded at neither. I had high hopes, but they were diminished.

I didn't like this movie at all. I also didn't think it was funny.

just read the book.

Some parts are pretty good....most are just flat

Really quirky. I liked it.

Director Ryan Murphy (Glee) is a talented director of actors & I like the oblique comic tone he employs, but this adaptation is a bit coy and marred by an over-reliance on the soundtrack and actors' crying fits to make points and contrasts. Still, overall, it seems promising to me.

It's an all over the place and misdirected series of vignetes poorly connected. Murphy tries to make it a quirky indy comedy and a coming of age drama and and falls short in both fields. On the good side, the production design is absolutely outstanding and there are a couple of funny moments mainly due to the mostly adequate cast.

I found it a pit painful to watch this movie. Being as i read the book before even knowing they had made a movie, si i had hight expectations about it, but i just got disappointed (the relationships between characters are very changed). They did no justice to the weirdness of it all and i just got bored watching it.

Utterly unlikeable.

By turns cruel, self-pitying, and mordantly witty, Bening makes living with a delusional psychotic seem like the adventure of a lifetime.

This movie bastardized the book and destroyed an american classic

Awkard pacing and direction ruin a uniformly great cast (including a game Joseph Cross). The director obviously has no idea how to tell this kind of story.

Elements from better movies thrown into a blender. Attempts at humor are garbled by overpowering incoherence.

Quite the twisted movie. Whats even more crazy, is the fact that its "true". I enjoyed it :)