The weak script is made worse by some truly terrible performances. Naomi Watts is truly awful in a great many scenes, particularly the beginning. The first 20 minutes of the film are painfully heavy handed and clumsy, while the last act is all over the place. In the latter half of the film passages of time are marked with the same mechanism, the arrival of babies/children, with little to no effort whatsoever at making anyone look like time has past. One practically comes out of nowhere that it takes a minute realise "oh, so 2 years must have past".

The only redeeming qualities are Robin Wright and the beautiful scenery of NSW, Australia.

I'm not even going to waste anymore time writing on this. It left me riled enough with its many shortcomings that I was exclaiming at the screen as the credits rolled. How this is from the same director as the well crafted Coco Avant Chanel (http://trakt.tv/movie/coco-before-chanel-2009) is staggering.