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When Haizlip saw her aunt, she was elated to see that she looked like her mother. "And when she smiled, all of the badfeelings I'd had drained out at me. She was just alittle old lady who looked like my mother," shesaid...
Randy Dean (Hollomon) is a high school senior who lives with her aunt and her aunt's girlfriend. Her aunt's exgirlfriend has just come for an extended "visit," bringing a two-ton suitcase. Randy is having an affair with a married woman whom she meets intermittently in the bathroom of the gas station where Randy works. Complications arise when Evie Roy (Nicole Parker) shows up at the gas station with an alleged flat tire and a phobia of pressure pumps. Again, the camera watches only their legs as Evie runs around, trying to help Randy and yet stay...
Unfortunately, many of the film's other characters are merely cardboard props that pop up at convenient times: Evie's closet sensitive boyfriend, her shallow in-group friends, Randy's family, her timid gay-guy friend and her aunt, a grump who snaps at everyone in the house like Archie Bunker with...
...usual madhouse atmosphere of women milling through Randy's house is briefly suspended once, when her aunt mentions that it's difficult to be poor and have to provide for friends and family. Having explained the chip on her shoulder, the story resumes. Most of the characters have one scene where they come to life, but then we learn little else about them...
...matter how many 800s he or she has scored on the college boards, no matter how high he or she stands in the secondary school class, no matter how involved he or she is in community work, no matter who his or her mother or father, or aunt or uncle, or cousin...