I was disappointed...as a lover of indie film there can be a fine line to being a "indie" film and declaring it. This film screams "I'm an indie film!". It has ambitions the likes of "Little Miss Sunshine" or "Juno" (indie's everyone has seen and have actually made money) but draws too much attention to its own contrived quirkiness both in characters and situations. This can at times, as I found in "Juno", be accepted through suspension of disbelief but I never really bought the uber-intelligent speak coming out of the mouths of the kids and the over-the-top behavior of the adults (especially the mom).As so-called indie films become more mainstream in terms of distribution and actual audience, the challenge will become, as with current "blockbuster" films, to not fall into formulas. This film seemed as to aware of the standard indie elements...accordion-laced soundtrack, overly quirky characters, time-lapsed editing techniques, and, of course, depressing modern existentialist themes of "life is nothing more than what you make it...".
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