Alice Eckle is a waitress in a small town whose life is upended when a construction worker accidentally drives a nail into her head. The injury produces erratic behaviour, and because she has no health insurance, the doctors she approaches will not remove the nail. Her fiancé Scott breaks off their engagement, and Alice takes her case to Washington, where she becomes the public face of people harmed by freak accidents. There she meets Howard Birdwell, a young and inexperienced congressman who agrees to champion her cause. Alice is played by Jessica Biel and Howard by Jake Gyllenhaal, with Catherine Keener, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan and Paul Reubens among the supporting cast.
David O. Russell directed, working from a screenplay by Kristin Gore, Dave Jeser and Matthew Silverstein. It is the eighth of the eleven features he has directed, arriving between Joy and Amsterdam. The film was made for a budget of 26 million US dollars.
Audience response has been weak: on IMDb it holds 4.1 out of 10 from around 9,600 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 4.3 out of 10 from 359 votes. A critics' rating of 3.7 out of 10 across 35 reviews puts it at a similar level to those viewer scores, with no wide gap between the two.
© ACMODASI, 2010-2026
All rights reserved.
The materials (trademarks, videos, images and text) contained on this site are the property of their respective owners. It is forbidden to use any materials from this site without prior agreement with their owner.
When copying text and graphic materials (videos, images, text, screenshots of pages) from this site, an active link to the site www.acmodasi.in must necessarily accompany such material.
We are not responsible for any information posted on this site by third parties.