A train wreck you can't help but watch.

While the film at times feels like a clumsily acted play, a surprising turn by Delta Burke carries the cast out of the doldrums of an often-strained plot line.

A movie that, while robustly performed ... has the strange effect of not so much opening up a play for the screen as closing it in.

Runs the risk of alienating its audience by going a little too far over the top and, in its efforts to be different, delivers instead, more of the same.