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movie is very much like real life, it's a thoughtful and hopeful piece that gives you the power and the enthusiasm to make changes in the things in your life that are not working out, all it needed for Patti was one solitary individual to open her eyes and awaken her to a world where she is not a failure, but an inspiration to all.

The remainder of the cast do well, Messing is charming as the colourful tongued Kate, a woman who is not prepared to engage in second chances and delivers each hostile line with a humorous punch. While Patrick Wilson plays for the straight role, the only one in the movie as the sort of person we all know, and to some degree want to be, although he in turn wants, no needs to be like every one of us. If I have one casting criticism then it's with Donal Logue as Patti's husband Chazz, Logue delivers one of the most excruciatingly painful British accents I have EVER heard in my life, stumbling between South African, Irish, and Australian the actor just does not know where he is going, and the result makes him the most dislikeable person in the movie, a real hindrance in fact to an otherwise stellar piece. Even Burns, really delivers the goods, and I cannot stand the guy.

P.T. Walkley's musical score is out of place, but perfectly enjoyable, as isolated music it works incredibly well, with the movie although it works well it gives the impression of a very different film.

Purple Violets as I said at the start is not necessarily the sort of movie that most men will like, or at least admit too. But it carefully ensures not to cross the paths of traditional "Girls" movies, keeping enough raw and gritty matter around that an honest man might not only watch the movie, but actually enjoy it.

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