This novel turned motion picture debut by Kevin Bacon, has all the ingredients of an interesting and moving film. Unfortunately these ingredients seem to fade away slowly as the film progresses. Kyra Sedgwick who not only acts terrifically throughout the film, but also narrates it as well. Her character, a women obsessed with having a child, and keeping it to herself forever, loses its flavor as it becomes more and more funny than serious. The small boy played by Dominic Scott Kay, should have been either re-cast or re-shot several times. His artificial deliveries take away from the seriousness of Sedgwicks maternal character again and again, and seem to make the film comical at times when it should not be. Kevin Bacon does surprise with his debut of a motion picture behind the camera, unlike his peer Nic Cage, with that mess of a film "Sonny". Bacon also keeps the film watchable between some of the arid scenes with is comedic paternal character circa 1970's. Hopefully the six degrees of Kevin Bacon will continue to lend to more films directed by Bacon, after this noble and respectable first effort.
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