135 minute running time so at least 35 minutes too long … white woman soap opera star is paralyzed and returns to family home in Louisiana where a black woman nurses her back to physical and mental health … it’s too long and predictable and boring … talk, talk, talk … it’s not terrible, but I just wasn’t interested.

Ebert writes: “John Sayles says he has been interested in such relationships between client and companion ever since he watched them develop in his own family.”