Maybe moviegoers, understandably fed up with Hollywood's recent simulations of humanity, will sustain "She's So Lovely" on waves of nostalgia for a time--more the '60s than the '70s--when emotions seemed to matter more than anything in a world gone certifiably mad.

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It's about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad.

CNN: Statement from Mel Gibson

If it's business as usual, the United States could find itself marginalized in a world, economically speaking, gone mad.

CNN: Commentary: Why Obama should be upbeat -- and worried