"Sayles interlocks the two protagonists' lives with several themes in parallel, like their individual detox processes (Mary-Alice's bibulous addiction is a mote in Chantelle's eyes), and the romantic males (both women have dreams or reveries of carnal knowledge) to whom they act against their best judgement, Mary-Alice's feeling for Rennie (Strathairn), a quondam classmate, is border on limerence and vice versa; whereas a virile Ulysses LeDoux (Curtis-Hall) is clearly a pickup artist, and Chantelle's involvement is a self-revealing act of her vulnerability rather than sexual attraction. However, they are only sideshows, and Sayles is sensible enough to not make heavy weather of them."
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