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âShe might be crazy, or she might be the sanest person Iâve ever met.â Some cringingly obvious lines really lower the tone of this deep south melodrama (released in the US last year with the title Tuscaloosa). Itâs an adaptation of Glasgow Phillipsâs novel about a white kid in early-70s Alabama: a psychiatristâs son, he falls in love with one of his dadâs patients. The director is Philip Harder, a veteran music promo maker who evokes time and place with the intoxicatingly intense colour and heightened reality of a William Eggleston photograph. But his film, though well-meaning, is disappointingly tame and soap opera-ish.