I decided to watch this film on Netflix only because it had Rachel Bronhahan in it, who I love. I knew nothing about the plot prior to viewing. At the end I was left wanting more. It has all the ingredients: love, compassion; community, spirituality, humanness, but they never come together to create a satisfying narrative. It is a difficult movie to figure out, maybe that is what the writer intended. Who knows. The movie to me is like a downhill racer who has the best skis, the best boots, the best poles, the best goggles and the best intentions, but still can only come in 6th.

It's a quiet neighborhood with older residents; the Lemkes (M. Emmet Walsh, Olympia Dukakis) and the Bayberrys (Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Gerety). Moody (Aidan Quinn) is a cop. Donna (Macy Gray) is a music teacher. Everybody is fascinated when mysterious Wren (Rachel Brosnahan) moves in. She gets lots of letters for unknown reasons. There is bird watching.

There are some great veteran actors. I figured that I would check this out for Brosnahan. She's really doing the quiet mysterious type here. The movie is doing a lot of quiet mysterious setup. The writer and the director seems to be veteran on movie sets who are trying to expand their work. They need one of them to be a veteran of her job to fulfill their vision. They have something here although it's somewhat scattered. They just need a bit of help to create the needed magical surrealism and tie it all together.

I thought the acting was very good, but the film and its message were boring. I can see you'd give it a 10 if you are of the Christian persuasion and energized just by your faith - lots of Christian message and imagery. I'm not a Christian. I didn't feel hit over the head with the faith, but I lost interest in the film. It was just boring.