This film, from indie director Todd Solondz is really two different movies, both of which have to do with storytelling of a sort...the first tale set in a college writing course has Selma Blair as a young woman involved with a cripple who has an affair with her professor and the second story is about Paul Giamatti as a down and out documentary filmmaker who follows a depressed high school kid and his family (including John Goodman and Julie Hagerty) around. Both stories are interesting and offbeat featuring solid acting work and good and involving storylines..They alternate between amusing at times and disturbing at others, often both, though sticking a big red box over a disturbing rape scene is more amusing than it should be... still a fine piece of filmmaking that is definitely worth the price of admission. GRADE: A-
Review of Storytelling
