Actually, the characters and actors, minus the lead, all make the film work a lot better than it would have. The lead, however, Sackhoff, just doesn't fit. She looks like a mom 10 years older than the characters who are supposed to be at or near the same age. I guess this is a case study in how a single important character miscast can leave a film being little more than olives and alcohol.
Besides being a psychotic-lite drama with a little humor thanks largely to the actors, it also taps into, with better than average insight, common early-to-mid life crisis issues along with sexual abuse issues. Had it not decided to also be a War on Drugs propaganda film, I might even call it smart. Maybe when the writer learns Cobain carried Nirvana, he'll have enough smarts to put together genius films like Matt Damon has done.
Besides being a psychotic-lite drama with a little humor thanks largely to the actors, it also taps into, with better than average insight, common early-to-mid life crisis issues along with sexual abuse issues. Had it not decided to also be a War on Drugs propaganda film, I might even call it smart. Maybe when the writer learns Cobain carried Nirvana, he'll have enough smarts to put together genius films like Matt Damon has done.