If you don't start out with a good story, and well-wrought characters, no talent will keep the audience's attention. Neither Kate Winslet nor Jean Smart, two of the best actors in the business, could save this dead horse, or should I say mare. The story is trite, sophomoric, and without any spark. It's what you get if you cross "The Hillbilly Elegy" with "Mystic River" and give it to a nine-year-old to edit.

I would take this ole mare to the back of the barn and put it out of its misery.