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This film has plenty of strong performances and provocative themes, but is too episodic to come together.

Kalin is a very brave and honest filmmaker (and plenty astute), but his subject matter argues that some stories need not be told.

So muddled and self-important that none of its characters, not even with Moore's ferocious performance, can take shape.

Blessed with a fine script, solid cast, smashing production design, and a message that drives home the notion that money isn't everything.

Rather than imitate the postmodernism chic of Far from Heaven or the parodic silliness of Die, Mommie, Die!, Kalin settles for a nondescript style whose sole function is to stay out of Moore's way.

The lurid plot, based on a very true story, isn't the problem here...stilted dialogue), and not nearly enough coaxing Moore out of her habit of clenching her face at the camera.

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Dark humor, along the lines of "The Honeymoon Killers," gives way to fractured set pieces that gesture toward the film's gratuitous climax, one that's destined to bestow upon it a cult status.