Tim is a mentally handicapped young man who falls in love with an older woman despite his family's objections. Their relationship turns serious and that's basically the point of the movie - can older women love younger men? I looked forward to this as I'm a big Mel Gibson fan and feel he is too often bagged on by critics and moviegoers (particularly Europeans for some reason - according to a poll, because he's always killing them in his movies and they think he's racist!). Well his performance as the titular "Tim" is laughably bad and far from a Rain Man. His "Kangaroo Hop" sequence had me rolling on the floor in laughter wondering whether it was a comedy, and when he started jumping up and down I couldn't stop the tears.
This is just a really poor movie by almost all standards. The direction is poor (it's worse than a made-for-TV movie), the performances are bad, the romance is totally unbelievable and the soundtrack is so horrible it made me want to cringe.
I hate to sound so bitter but you know a movie is going to be in trouble when the description on the back of the DVD reads as if it were written by an illiterate third grader with crossed eyes.
This is just a really poor movie by almost all standards. The direction is poor (it's worse than a made-for-TV movie), the performances are bad, the romance is totally unbelievable and the soundtrack is so horrible it made me want to cringe.
I hate to sound so bitter but you know a movie is going to be in trouble when the description on the back of the DVD reads as if it were written by an illiterate third grader with crossed eyes.