Movieville

Boring screenplay spends half its time getting the surface of the source novel but not the presumed depth (I didn't read it). But Portman is good and Sarandon is fantastic, and the film is enjoyable enough but not really memorable. B-

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly