Reception
The film received mostly mixed reviews from critics. Review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 38% (based on 13 reviews), with an average score of 4.6/10. Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader described the film as a "corny but sincere weeper", while Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one star (out of 4) and criticized the screenplay (calling it "murky" and including it on his "Most Hated" list). On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics, the film has a rating score of 39 (based on 20 reviews).
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