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The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.
True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor.
Only the threat of, say, an alien abduction could make a man watch all the way through this domestic bathos.
(Prudie doesn't care for these "Christmas letters" to begin with, finding them most often little packages of braggadocio and bathos.
Even Mintz senses the bathos of ending his book on such a weak note.