btw, so glad that you hated American Beauty. I could not stand that film!

Sadly, cheap films are like $4 here in Portland. I used to be able to see the second-run ones for like $1.50 in Eugene - now it's like $2 or $2.25, something redonk.

My parents see pretty much anything that's remotely catering to their sensibilities. Rom coms of all shades of bad, in particular. They don't tend to watch any of the more 'quality' films that hit the theater, Oscar-contenders included. It can be seriously annoying.