lyme meh, life meher

I know that lyme disease is really bad. I mean, all diseases are bad, some are worse than others, I hate disease. Here's the thing about this movie, why I think it sucks: the whole thing is supposed to touch on the gravity of lyme disease, or like the anxiety of the possibility, of it being around in this town and the threat that anyone could get it, deer ticks, etc, and that lyme disease and the shittiness and anxiety of having it or it being all over the place is supposed to be this foundation onto which the rest of the dramatic action is built. but, unless I missed it (<-- totally possible), the film totally doesn't really talk about what lyme disease is, and I kind of needed that. I think the movie needed it.

If you want to see really awful acting by Alec Baldwin, this is your movie.

So, yeah, it's the 70s, Lyme disease is all over, parents are having affairs and terrible marriage fights and kids are awkward and creepy and exploring their sexualities in normal ways that still make them and maybe you uncomfortable. I don't remember much of the plot except one husband with Lyme disease is always hiding and sketching in odd places (his basement) and he witnesses AB porking his wife (the lawyer from Sex in the City) and he draws that and she finds out that he knows because she finds the sketchbook. At the end, he gets a gun and you're not sure if he shoots the wifescrewer or the deer he's been stalking. Like, the movie ends with a gunshot. It's so crappy. There's some good acting but mostly it just seems like a waste-of-time-and-film Ice Storm. Maybe I'll rent the Ice Storm tonight. Now that's some good 70s marital/teenage horror.