This film was shot so beautifully that it's really a shame that the film maker decided to use and abuse the voice-over narration to as a substitute for talented acting. Of course, when the acting is as lackluster as it was in this film, you may need that voice-over to actually spell out everything that happened to be going through the character's head. Nonetheless, I really felt that Lionel Stander's second-person recital of the story got in the way of an otherwise completely likable film.