An Excellent Story, Well Realized, 13 January 2007 Author: strain6 from United States This is the best movie that I',ve seen this year. I know it is the second week out, but it is better than what I can remember seeing last year. There is so much that is good about this film that it is hard to know where to begin. You can start with the characters. There is quite a range of socio-economic backgrounds converging here in comfortable laid back sleaziness, out of which comes the interaction of characters with a range of family values. There are the second and third generation sleazeballs played by Bruce Willis and Harry Dean Stanton. There are parents like the mother played by Sharon Stone who wants to raise happy healthy decent children. Kids who are essentially vicious and stupid hang with those who won',t put common sense and decency in their back pockets and a mix of those in between. We see the initial corruption of the innocent as well as the easy descent of the aimless. This is not just another teen crime movie or the umpteenth hostage flick. It is also a story that is rife for reductionistic moralizing: my pre-emptive strike on one Jesus H. Christ. I don',t what is responsible for the dumpage on this movie, but I think it will find the large audience it deserves.