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

Utterly unlikeable.

Benning is great as the clearly insane mother, but she's not the only weird person, even the psychiatrist is a wack job.

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

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.

Evan Rachel Wood was good. I also liked the very end. Annette Benning made it right and the whole ending scene worked nice. But the movie itself tired to be a new world according to Garp and failed in big scale. And I do not like Fiennes, no Paltrow nor Baldwin.

Utterly disappointing and pedestrian depiction of what sounds like an interesting story. Murphy wants to tell a story with Lynchian-style personality freaks. But, instead of nightmarish dream-sequences, he gives us a soundtrack of pop music and a never-ending stream of kitsch.

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.

"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

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

I couldn't force myself to watch past the first twenty minutes.

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.