Barefoot

A wayward son of a wealthy family working in a mental hospital brings a mental patient to his brother's wedding. The story is sweet and at sometimes a little lacking in subtlety but overall it's watchable romantic comedy that's quite light hearted and has two leads that are good. It could have been funnier and better written in parts but it's still worth a watch for fans of the leads. Evan Rachel Wood's unique charm and loveliness save her character Daisy Kensington from being annoying. Evan is such a versatile actress she can play anything from super sweet to evil (Mildred Pierce) and her innocence is believable here. The character is given some dialog and behavior that could have been better written. Scott Speedman is fairly charming and rakish in his role looking for help from his parents. Shouldn't have made him so scruffy. Worth one watch.

It's not good or bad. It's nothing. The writing is stale the characters are flat and paint by numbers the story is something you've seen a million times. Obscenely wealthy family's bad egg. Obsesive prying parents and a girlfriend who just dropped in from Mars. What's her problem with toilets anyway. Her toilet * is a big part of the movie. What is her general reality? Is she disturbed, retarded, autistic, what? I think she's supposed to be the mermaid from Splash 2. Anyway it turns into a weird buddy movie road movie rom com with some E.T. thrown in. The lighter side of kidnapping and sexually assaulting mental patients who fall in love with you because you're good looking and a rich dangerous bad boy. Who could find fault with that.

Don't look too deeply. This is a movie that wants to be fun and adventurous and a little bit dangerous. If you're in the right mood, you don't need much more than that. Sure it's ridiculous and implausible and poorly edited, and Scott Speedman only has two gears, and the writing is a little off, and the central relationship is a little creepy on several different levels. No matter. This is one of those movies that is touched by the magic of the movies -- maybe not enough to make it great or even good as a movie, but it has a relentless sparkle-eyed charm that makes it pleasant and irrationally satisfying as an experience.