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Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Truly Abysmal
This film is uniquely excruciating. Starring Cybill Shepherd as an over-the-top villainous mother, the story centers around an unlikely romance between a rich deaf girl and a poor waiter.
Of course, you're thinking- aren't all unlikely-romance movies terrible? Isn't this par for the course? Oh no. It's much worse than you could imagine.
The dialog falls into three categories- ridiculous 'heartwarming' stories (there's one about stealing duck eggs), cheesy one-liners, and Cybill Shepherd shouting insanity at other characters. While one character is deaf, the film could be improved if all characters were mute.
Music is a recurring theme throughout the story, and the main character is supposed to be a talented singer-songwriter. This conceit wears thin, as the main character sings off-key, and the lyrics, such as they are, will make you beg for death.
Yet the true fatal flaw of the film is the outlandish plot. Although set in reality, the events are too ridiculous by far. Whether it's Cybill punishing her daughter for resisting a rapist she sent (!!!), or a main character developing sudden onset incurable brain cancer, everything about the movie is unbearable. Only watch if you intend to make a drinking game out of this atrocity.