The biggest problem for this film was that it didn't know what it wanted to be. It started off as an absurd comedy but tried to turn into a powerful depressing drama by the end. Without a cleverly written script, it is set up for failure.
The acting is mostly poor. Dominique Swain does a respectable job. Which makes it more of a tragedy that she was actually in a film this bad. Busy Phillips is the other actress who can impress in a few scenes. Everyone else was forgettable to say the least. Except for Thora Birch, whose motive for starring here I can't begin to understand.
The directing was OK, it wasn't as bad as the script or the actors. The montage scenes were well done. They almost tricked you into forgetting that they were from a bad film. In the end its still an overproduced waste of film.