Aggressively offbeat comedy about a runaway teen (Christina Ricci) and the people into whose lives she brings a few storm clouds, chiefly her homosexual half-brother, his bisexual lover, and their embittered spinsterish neighbor. The tough-talk narration of the central character ("I don't have a heart of gold, and I don't grow one later, okay?") is irritating in every way possible: arbitrarily first-person and omniscient by turns, garrulously intrusive, self-consciously commenting on itself, and then the narrator as a person is irritating, independent of her narration. But the movie, with its slightly apologetic belief in growth and change, can grow on you if given a chance and a half. In particular the next-door spinster can grow on you: an interesting character, in an interesting, brittle, flinty portrayal by Lisa Kudrow. With Martin Donovan and Lyle Lovett; written and directed by Don Roos. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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