After a half hour I was looking a my watch every 10 minutes. Then I started realizing that all these dysfunctional mental cases were just making me depressed. I kept trying to find something redeeming about this movie -- after all, it is so highly acclaimed. But, frankly I could not wait for it to be over. Walking out was out of the question because my wife would have been impossible to live with for days. And it wasn't because it was a "chick flick" or because there were no car crashes or aliens with exploding heads. It was because, frankly, these acclaimed actors had a crappy script to work with. The story just went on and on and had no place to go. It was the longest 2 hours I ever spent. Save your money.