If there's one thing you would come away with after watching this movie,it will be the issue of the weaknesses and depravity of human beings and how, in one way or another, out of their miseries or their avarice and greed, they will stoop as low as possible, to find solace irrespective whether it is right of wrong.
In a rural town in Oklahoma, Beverly Weston, a has-been poet and constant drunkard is interviewing a Native American to take care of his drug addict wife with a mouth cancer. After this, he secretly leaves and the wife,Violet has to called on her daughters to provide her emotional support. Her husband's death brought further melancholia into the family and unknown family secrets started spilling out which pitted one member of the family against another.
Though this movie had obtained international acclaim particularly for Meryl Street and Julia Roberts, both of whom were nominated for Academy awards, I felt though there is just too much dialogue and unnecessary overacting.
This is mostly a movie where the women including even the maid shine and the men from Sam Shepherd, Ewan MacGregor to Chris Cooper were reduced to background characters.
Dull mainly but if you have the patience, do see to its final conclusion to see the strength of character as manifested by both Meryl and Julia.
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