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Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 3:12 AMNo Comment

I found it enjoyable to watch the story unfold, but at the same time, I didn’t care about the characters all that much, which may be the point, but I don’t know. I have to watch it again, I think, in tandem with The Man Who Wasn’t There; I can see certain parallels, particularly in the characters Frances McDormand plays. When I looked up the actor who played Ray, it cracked me up to find out that he also played grody Gus in Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, one of my favorite guilty-pleasure movies.

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