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This film is awful. Just awful. The bouncing of the timeline takes away from the plot and the suspense. All of the characters are distastefully immoral and downright repulsive. Why on earth would a director the caliber of Sidney Lumet would touch this script is beyond comprehension.

The opening scene is just unbearable. The film opens with Phillip Seymour Hoffman s*domizing Marisa Tomei. It is graphic. No one needs or deserves to have to see Hoffman's bulbous, clown white buttocks slamming into a human being. What I found hilarious is Tomei agreed to all her nudity because she wanted to work with Lumet. That's all she does, is be nude.

A full, overly morbid and creepy promotion of his wife.

I think we will all agree that gad Jennifer Just nes not traded up in husband's from Robert Walker up to David O. Selznick, she would have barely had a career in television let alone feature films.

Jenifer Jones was a terrible actress. Her narcissism and vanity overtook everything about her. She was very plain to the point where over grooming by the studios didn't even help.

One wonders what kind of bizarre hold she had over Selznick to ruin his career for her. This awful film was the nail in the coffin of his career. Gone with the wind.

A motley group of passengers are grounded at Heathrow Airport because of fog.

Rid Taylor is a man desperate to keep control of his own company. He plays an Australian and his accent is overdone. Strange since he actually WAS Australian.

Maggie Smith plays Rod Taylors devoted right hand office manager,who is obviously in love with him.

Orson Wells provides comic relief as a film director who needs to get out of the country to establish foreign residency to save on income taxes.

Margaret Rutherford is the true star and main attraction as a Duchess who is flying to America to work as a consultant to earn money to save her home.

Forget about the booze bloated Burtons. They are boring and glide through this post Cleopatra vehicle and their time as tabloid fodder.