Growing up in the south,where people not only ignore the elephant crapping in the family room, but will turn on and kill and filet anyone crass enough to even notice the elephant crapping — much less talk about it — I can totally get into this film. It is so exquisitely southern and an excellent illustration for anyone who ever did not understand the term “hoist on your own petard.” Glenn Close is brilliant, Patricia Ryan is scintillating — the whole cast is dead-on with a kind of understated deliciousness.