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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldPlays like a series of well-done but disconnected acting-class sketches, filled with a huge cast of first-rate actors whose careers have all gone into decline.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerDesmond RyanPhiladelphia InquirerDesmond RyanRather like listening to Vladimir Horowitz play "Chopsticks."
- 50Miami HeraldCurtis MorganMiami HeraldCurtis MorganAnnie DeSalvo, a first-time director and screenwriter, can't escape the made-for-TV feel but does manage to give her cast, mostly once-big names fallen from grace and popularity, flashes of humanity between lessons about various saints and sermons disguised as dialogue.
- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghSmacks of a certain kind of TV movie filled with pious uplift, even as it makes token concessions to contemporary lifestyles.
- 38Chicago TribuneJohn PetrakisChicago TribuneJohn PetrakisAll the obligatory plot elements are there. Love and loss, anger and forgiveness, illness and death. But they never flow together to make a coherent story. Instead, they just pop up whenever the script is in trouble. Which is all the time.
- 38New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanOnly a memorably commanding Ruehl transcends the limitations of her two-dimensional character.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleWe all know how actors overact when they play Italians, and we all know how actors overact when they play brain-damaged characters, so just imagine Knight's performance as a brain-damaged Italian American.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie should be praying to St. Jude, patron saint of lost causes. Maybe he could perform a miracle and turn this into a cable offering, so no one has to buy a ticket to see it.
- 20Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorThe characters seem both reduced and idealized, and the plot has turns a dispassionate dramatist would avoid.
- 10The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenAlthough the concept seems promising enough, it is undone by disastrous casting decisions and an utter lack of ensemble unity.