IMDb plot summary: A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, and J. Smith-Cameron.
I have appreciated and moderately enjoyed other Kenneth Lonergan films… so… what happened here? What Lonergan has always excelled at is naturalistic and believable dialogue and direction, so why does this feel like dialogue right out of a Rifftrax special? Characters reiterate the same five points over and over again to each other and react to things they already know with shock and disgust. It’s not just bad, it’s laughably bad, like it’s been translated through Google Translate one too many times, and I genuinely can’t comprehend how it happened. The concept behind the story is a good one, and Allison Janney absolutely steals the one scene she’s in as the only one who can make these words sound reasonable, but the rest of it is such a bizarre, stilted mess that I’m left in just complete confusion as to what went wrong.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Margaret < The Cutting Edge
Margaret > A Prairie Home Companion
Margaret < The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Margaret < Saludos Amigos
Margaret < The Pajama Game
Margaret > Destry Rides Again
Margaret > Loving Annabelle
Margaret > City Slickers
Margaret > American Sniper
Margaret < Ocean's Twelve
Margaret < State of the Union
Margaret < VeggieTales: Are You My Neighbor?
Final spot: #2507 out of 3478, or 28%.
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