I have read a review here of someone complaining that this movie was hard to watch. That is true. Also, that person wanted to feel good. That is honorable of course, yet do we want to feel good or do we want the truth? Because the truth is good and bad. This movie has both. Of course it is based on a traumatic event so the bad in it is well present. But there is also good in it, and not cheap good, not a burger or something, a good that comes from a long process involving a lot of patience as usual, which is based on a lot of love. And I found that it was so well written and so soberly played that it was very watchable, very much. I found the principal actor to be amazing!!!!!!!!! I found the principal actress sometimes not convincing but hey, she was also the writer and the director, so let's give her a break. A very genuine movie that I'm so happy to have found by chance!It is so refreshing to see what is made out of Hollywood and with such quality! And it does not look like a indie movie : the lightnings, the sound, everything is pretty well done, and I particularly appreciated the camera point of views. There are not so many places involved in this movie and yet with the camera put always in interesting places, it felt always as rediscovering each place. Nice! Oh and the poster... Mwua!

This was a hard movie for me to watch as I felt that Jason Ritter was really wasting his time with this young woman. Sure, he was no doubt physically attracted to her, but wouldn't he have been totally turned off by her negative language and behavior? OK, he was sleeping in his car and needed a much better place to call home. And he may have seen a future with her. But it just seemed to me...wow, how could he have put up with her? As far as movies go, it had some good qualities, but for me a movie has to be more "watchable" than this one. The drab interior of her apartment was supposed to be depressing, of course. But watching this movie on a rainy morning just made me want to turn this movie off and find a happy and uplifting concert on You Tube or talk to a happy person and get on with my life.

Young people in America today are bombarded by sexual imagery, peer pressure, raging hormones, and too early sexual experiences to the point most have had their psyches damaged by the time they reach adulthood. As a result we have a nation of aggressive women who hate, use and abuse men and dopey weak men addicted to porn and afraid of women. Women are angry and men are ashamed.Misuse of sexuality has turned the nation into something unrecognizable forty years ago. Women have become pushy, bossy and encouraged to get what they want while men have been been demoralized, degraded, and diminished by culture. We are so confused now we elect a cunning, manipulative ah**e who promises us what we want while lying to us about what we really need and what he is really doing to us. That's why movies today are mostly c**p - messed up people only enjoy messed up movies. It's all about good witch vs bad witch - they are all witches! If you put morality in a movie in any form today people flame out because decent people embarrass most of us.This movie in an imperfect way is about right and wrong. The Jason Ritter character tries to crack the woman's shell by not using her and being strong with her irrational behavior (re My fair Lady). It does the trick since this is something no man has ever done for her before. Her resulting catharsis leads to her turning against her father for independence. Whether the ending of the film could happen in real life is doubtful since couples are more likely to end up beating on each other and taking drugs then breaking up completely. Still the movie is important and should be seen by more people. Movies used to be about right winning over wrong which made them ring true. That is what makes this one so enjoyable.

I came across this film by accident. A very fortunate accident for me. The characters and the plot were very believable. I am a retired police officer having worked in the NYPD and in Colorado. I have met people like her and have spent a lot of time dealing with their issues. I was glued to my TV and when the film ended as I had watched one of the best films ever. The main plot was very well developed along with two or three sub-plots involving other characters. Culver City is filled with a lot of pseudo-intellectuals who all believe that they are somehow film experts and filled with all sorts of wisdom about life in general. This adds to the great direction as the viewer is watching life in that community as the main characters are developed.