40
A feel-good, fatalist placebo.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
Ambitious in scope and humble in execution.
20
L.A. Weekly by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
It's bad enough that Australian writer-director Pip Karmel feels she must attempt the alternate-reality gimmick.
38
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
A fascinating contrast in lifestyles.
50
A comic vehicle for that valuable Australian export, Rachel Griffiths.
40
The script is a minefield of ideas that need more work.
50
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
If you were watching it at home you wouldn't feel compelled to pause the film before going into the kitchen to fix a snack.
63
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
Far too self-absorbed a picture.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Griffiths is one of the most intensely interesting actresses at work today.
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
Likely to provide many points of identification for many women.