Movie-goers may be lured in by the comedic promise of seeing Dianne Wiest as an opera diva (her other diva turn, in "Bullets Over Broadway," deservedly netted her an Oscar), but Litvack's mishmash of a script and too stately pacing probably won't pay off at the boxoffice. The story hinges on Thomas Beaumont (Stanislas Merhar), the 23-year-old, sexually confused son of renowned opera diva Elizabeth Beaumont (Wiest), who's in town to perform "Turandot." Cruising the Internet, Thomas gets recruited by a much older man to hide in a closet and watch something.

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