I dunno, MP. I thought this was rolling along just great till the...umm...arousing group scene at the end. Maybe this was great in the book, and it occurred to me as I watched it that maybe somebody like Scorsese or Spielberg or even David Lynch might find some way to make it work, but, as filmed, I thought it was pretty disastrous. I saw the movie in a theatre with a large audience. Everyone seemed into the film till THAT scene. At first there was muttering, then chuckling, then some pretty hearty laughter. I chuckled a bit myself. Admittedly, under the best of circumstances, it would be tough to make such a scene work, but this didn't even come close.