Amazon.com video review:
Director Dan Ireland shows a talent for authenticity with this
heartbreaking love story based on Novalyne Price's 1988 account of her
prickly romance with 1930s pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard, the
creator of Conan the Barbarian. She was a schoolteacher in a small
Texas town; he was the odd-ball writer who lived at home and created
comic-book characters that were sexier and more violent than was
considered decent by the locals. Renée Zellweger's performance
is a gem of sweet unconventionality matched by Vincent D'Onofrio's
powerful show of eccentricity and increasing mental illness. Though
smart and feisty, this leaves us wishing the filmmakers had dug deeper
into Howard's unusual relationship with his manipulative
mother. --Rochelle O'Gorman
