Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

When we watched "Hideous Kinky" a few years ago, it seemed like a period piece: it looked at the days when people could go to a place like Morocco and not have to fear for their lives. Since September 11, 2001, it's become even more of a period piece.Is it a good movie? Even if the movie's no masterpiece, it's good just to be able to see Kate Winslet as a Swinging London flower child taking her daughters to Morocco, where she strikes up a relation with a local man. That probably would be dangerous nowadays.So see it just for that. Given the current state of the world, you may not have much more time to watch it.

Not your typical "chick flick", this Kate Winslet drama is at sometime a drama and other times a coming of age movie with Kate on the sidelines. Although she is the star of the movie and see on the box cover art of the movie and poster, she is not the main character of the story. The real stars of the movie are two very young actors Bella Bella Riza and Carrie Mullan. Both girls are very good actors and have wonderful screen chemistry. It is there story that fuels many interests. While Kate Winsley teases the audience from time to time with her body (nude) it is the innocence from Bella and Carrie that make the movie interesting and watchable.

Interwoven stories focused attention on side plot lines. The mother, the friends and their hosts in there travels who took them in for safety never gave the viewer an indication the kids or mother would be healthy, secure and taken care of where they would be in an alright, safe , healthy environs. There were moments the viewer was becoming quite anxious regarding the plot action, whereby they went in different directions in what we knew were fraught with possible medical, social and sexual dangers. Almost Hitchkockian in the use of the " mc guffin " A plot device was the question... who was taking care of whom. I Started watching and after two minutes I was hooked. Then there was the music. It was so good yet so out of place it gave you a personnal connection to the film and the story. This movie is not to be watched in a cursury manner. To watch this you must put the two hours aside and fall into this film. Twenty years from your friends will be impressed you knew it so well.

Kate Winslet is a great actress and not bad looking to boot. BUt this movie well lacked a story. Winslet's character was very unsimpathetic and selfish. She was basically a bad mother who put her kids in a bad and unhealthy situation all because she wanted to find herself. AAhh the sixties, what a wonderful time! Did this movie have a purpose or a meaning. I sure didn't see it. It is a very big waste of video tape. Seems like Winslet is too good of a talent to be in these kind of pictures, then again, she signs up for them.This movie get a minus four. It sucked to bad to even get one star out of four.