Simple small-town tragedy, complicated a little by a pingponging nonlinear narrative, and an ambivalent view of the Almighty. What's the connection, we want to know, between the dumbstruck, blood-soaked teenager and the religiose ex-convict who meets and marries his prison pen pal in dismal Oklahoma oil country? The answer is more slow than satisfying. Some sensitive performances, especially from Martha Plimpton, although she can't quite play her professed glass eye. With Kevin Anderson, Hal Holbrook, Nick Stahl; written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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