User Score
8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7

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  1. RandallS.
    Oct 26, 2002
    9
    This was one of my favorite movies of all times. I don't think it deserves the low score that it got.
  2. ChrisJ.
    Oct 18, 2004
    9
    As a father of an autistic boy I must say that Elisbeth Shue´s acting is very impressive. I thought she was very believable and this movie moved me a lot.
Metascore

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Negative: 7 out of 10
  1. 6
    It's a sugar rush that'll leave you feeling like a rotten cavity.
  2. (Shue's) sweetly likable performance is the only coherent element in a film that has the impersonal feel of a television drama slapped together in a rush.
  3. 50
    Shallow and blatantly manipulative variation on "Awakenings" in which every plot development is telegraphed.