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By Timothy Knight (332) for Reel.com (1,232) on 13 May 2004

A film that deftly captures the offbeat wit and empathy of Tyler's prose…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 13 May 2004

I have not read the Anne Tyler novella from which the movie is adapted, but it is clear from the earliest scenes that Evie and Drumstrings…

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By Kevin Crust (344) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 May 2004

The casting of Taylor gives the film a powerful center, a bright light that keeps it on course…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 12 May 2004

This soggy adaptation of an Anne Tyler novel is full of funny-sad Southern characters who would seem very familiar if they weren't so danged…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 12 May 2004

The movie's gradual devolution into a series of events sends the characters slipping and sliding into and apart from one another…

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By Laura Sinagra (110) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 May 2004

While the camera unsuccessfully courts Southern gothic humor, caressing a hodgepodge of retro-fetish knickknacks, the actors' knowing glances…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 09 May 2004

Too trite and uninteresting to service the wonderfully affecting performance from Lili Taylor…

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By Carlo Cavagna (228) for AboutFilm.com (228) on 30 Apr 2004

An extravagant act of self-mutilation is not enough to spice up the humdrum plain-girl- meets-pretty- boy-and-teaches- him-the-meaning- of-love story…

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