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Needed a script. Needed a wholesale purging of "Deliverance" cliches about the South -- retarded people, stock-car racin', drankin', mills, shabby cars and really ugly clothes. Needed a dialogue coach to get all the young losers into at least the same part of the country, if not the same state. Needed not to let the actors improvise when they had nothing to say. Needed some respect for the people it was supposed to represent, not all of whom are clowns, barroom drinkers, pompadoured cretins and Very Symbolic Children. And most of all, needed an ending, instead of another lovingly letter-boxed ode to a Rust Belt sunset. Despite my rant, I think the love story at the center could have been really, really well done, if the filmmaker had kept the two luminous leads and ditched all the Southern gothic.
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