In this movie he plays one of the more insecure characters I've seen all year, named Billy Brown. Now Billy has been in prison for the past tenyears, due to reasons too complicated to explain here. But now he's out which means that he's going to have to go back home like he's promised his mom and dad. But this means that he has to make good on all the promises he made that he in fact wasn't in jail, but instead had a nice job and was now married to a nice woman. So he kidnaps a young woman and takes her to his parents house to meet, where all the real funny stuff happens.

With Gallo writing, directing, editing, producing, starring, ect. this is defenietly his film, in every shape and form. It has a few problems with it (namely, it uses just about every independent film cliche in the book) but it is still a very good first effort. Plus, with this and The Opposite of Sex Christina Ricci is turing into one of the best young sctresses out there.

***1/2
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