What I find borish about the film is that I just couldn't feel any chemistry between the two. Maybe it is because of mr. diggs who is a terrible actor. His posturing and facial expressions are terribly generic. You can't tell if he is angry, happy or having an orgasm there is little difference. Then there is that pathetic accent which he seems to turn on and off with each scene and is never convincing. Maybe they should have stuck him in a room and forced him to watch "The harder they come" about 50 times untill he got it right. As for Bassett's performance, pure brilliance! She is the most stunning character I have seen in some time. You can actually believe her emotion and her beauty is incredible. In a strange way the disparity between her substantial performance and the weak poor performance from diggs makes the show work. It helps to emphasize their differences. She is twice his age, has a career and money. He is just 20 and poor. Of course such a relationship couldn't work and it basically doesn't. If they left it that way it would be a better movie and it looks like it was originally filmed to have a sad ending and added the little typical cliche piece at the end.
