“Magrath successfully develops from a one-dimensional mouthpiece of intrusive rich white liberal perspective into a more sympathetic figure, as complex as her African American lover and his family.”
“As Kimber, Monette Magrath is white and also blonde, willowy and patrician to the extreme. She might be easily dismissed as a trendy, shallow-minded rich girl and trophy date. But as the action progresses, we see that she can hold her own with the others and spar with the best of them...She’s more complex, more nuanced than she first appears to be... A uniformly fine cast that’s more than up to the challenge.”
“The film showcases top-notch acting from the entire cast... a remarkable and important film that is perfect on so many levels; it belongs in every film-lover’s DVD collection.”
“Monette Magrath, who resembles Laura Dern, has a tough task to make her manipulative character relatively likable, but she proves to in a revealing scene...”