I think I suggested this one to you awhile ago. When I saw it, about halfway through the group grabbed the bottle of schnapps and we did a shot everytime we saw something we wished to unsee. Towards the end the dvd was paused every 30 seconds and the bottle was gone. Good times; and bad, bad times.

As far as I can tell, there are five stories going on here. Three of them just engender an uneasy mixture of pity and derision for the characters. But the other two will make you physically ill.

That's all I ask in a movie. To have me cautiously resting my finger on the Pause button, in case I have to run real quick-like to the bathroom to launch my lunch.

Also, any movie with Phillip H. Seymour Watterson James Filbert Hoffman in it automatically rules.

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