Mini-Review: If you want to see Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney watch Peter Friedman die for two hours, this movie is totally for you. Just an unrelentingly depressing film, with no clear message beyond "dying is no fun for anyone." Pretentious, stereotyped characters, from the unkempt professor to the same I-can't-handle-this-but-maybe-I-can character Linney seems to play in every movie, to the mystically wise black foreigner who can put everything into perspective. This sucked so hard.

Mini-Review: A great performance by Peter Sellers, the story of a man raised by television then suddenly thrust into the real world, where his naivety is taken as quiet brilliance. Though it can be somewhat forgiven for it - as it is meant to be allegory more than anything else - the story is utterly unbelievable, and the film suffers because of it.