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Out of Omaha (2007)
Really bad for 60 minutes, good for 21 minutes
This is really bad for 60 minutes -- the movie starts out with two minutes of opening credits, RV cruising the expressway, which has very little to do with the plot. First scene is Dave and Lea buying an RV to take one trip to California -- it looks like Dave is making the decisions but that doesn't last beyond this scene. The next 58 minutes is characters cast way beyond stereotypes -- the clueless controlling mom, the dad without a voice, the clueless teenage daughter who thinks it's OK to hide her boyfriend in the bathroom of the RV for a cross-country trip, the daughter's boyfriend's gun-totin' hillbilly family, the husband's sister -- an attorney! -- who comes out with lines like "No one from Omaha goes to California" -- and the mom decides to steal her sister-in-law's dog until her sister-in-law apologizes. It's kind of like "The Stupids" -- although "The Stupids" built upon that theme of cluelessness and were actually likable. NO ONE in this movie is appealing for the first hour -- and that is VERY surprising for a movie with a cast with huge potential, including Patricia Richardson! The last 21 minutes, it's worth watching. But what in the world was going on for the writer and director to put together 60 minutes of nothing worth watching?