I think it’s difficult to act mentally handicapped, or at least to pull it off. The leads in this movie do a decent job of it though. If you’re not annoyed by the dialogue in the first half-hour, you’ll probably like this. One thing though, Juliette Lewis is far too pretty to be thoroughly convincing.
Ever been at a party at 2am, and you want to go home, but you’ve agreed to drive your friends home, and they’re engaged in some inane conversation and don’t want to leave? That’s what this movie was like for me… I just wasn’t having a good time. This got a bunch of good reviews, but for me… something was, um, lost in translation.