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Beautiful Kate challenges familiar narratives of incest and abuse, presenting a far more subtle portrait of the disintegration of a group of people in a quietly desperate situation.

The real star of this movie is Alan Rickman.

Gibson has an eye for a good story and knows how to lay it on with a trowel

With such material it is hard to fail. Tucker does not succeed, that's all.

The film has an intensity that creates its own tension.

Om Puri... is such a fine actor he touches every aspect of human experience.

Drab and strangely unfocused.

It's so oozy with reverence for the national game, you feel like taking up topless darts to get away from it.

The end result, though well-mounted and featuring knock-the-soot-out-of-your-chimney performances from Emma Thompson as Travers and Tom Hanks as the movie mogul, feels more like a Disney theme park version of events than the real story.

It is the superb acting and tightly plotted scripts that carry you through the mire of raw emotions - clutching your box of Kleenex like a floatation aid.

There is hardly a moment that does not resort to cliché, formula or stock characters.

The film is ultimately let down by its uneven story.