A bizarre first feature film about mother-son incest that won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Many viewers will find the entire premise distasteful, and the fact that it's treated as a black comedy here will only add to the sense of moral outrage. Jeremy Davies and Alberta Watson give perfectly nuanced performances in the pivotal roles, but director David O Russell's script can't decide if it's an out-and-out comedy or something much darker and psychologically sinister. The film also irritates on a technical level, with Russell seemingly unsure where to place his cameras for maximum effect. The director had a much bigger box-office success with his 1999 feature Three Kings.

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