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A blue chip cast is wasted in the painfully unfunny ensemble comedy Niagara Motel, about a gaggle of self-absorbed nitwits struggling to make ends meet on the Canadian side of the tourist mecca.
Eddie Cockrell, Variety
Overview
A porn producer, an alcoholic, a drug-addicted mother and others struggle to make ends meet.
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31%
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Rotten
Too many characters and so much plot that no single scenario ever develops into an absorbing drama.
Susan Walker, Toronto Star
Rotten
The actors are more or less on the same page, trying as much as possible to underplay this overheated material. But that doesn't help when the page itself is a scribbled sheet of foolscap crammed with narrative tangents and thematic jottings.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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