This is a beautifully filmed experience; thereafter a sort of emotional torpor sets in and it struggles to make headway in self-made heavy seas. The story, upon which it is based, offers us yards of controversial and harrowing material to work from, and ample scope to develop the characterisations, but somehow this just finds it's way into a cul-de-sac and never really discovers a way out. The cast, especially Regina King's emotionally fraught "Sharon" , and KiKi Layne's "Tish" really do impress at times, but that just isn't enough to compensate for the verbose, glacial pace of the film and I'm afraid it left me rather underwhelmed.
