Say It Isn`t So Review

Gilly Noble, Chris Klein, an orphan who works with animals and lives in a small town, is a genuinely nice guy; he`s looking for his long-lost parents, and has hired a private eye to help him find them, and he`s also looking for love. He finds the latter in Jo, Heather Graham, a not very efficient hairdresser, and they decide to marry; it`s only after they`ve consummated their relationship, however, that Gilly is informed that Jo`s parents, Valdine and Walter, are his parents too - he`s been sleeping with his sister!. The aptly titled SAY IT ISN`T SO was produced by the Farrelly Brothers and directed by their former assistant, J.B. Rogers, and it strains far too hard at the kind of shock gross-out comedy that the Farrellys have pioneered. It`s not at all funny to see what Chris Klein, a competent young actor, does with the hind-quarters of a cow, for instance. The film, like so many these days, starts with a promising premise, but then fritters it away with uninteresting minor characters and sub plots and unfunny routines that are allowed to continue long after the joke, such as it was, has died the death. Heather Graham seems oddly constrained by her role, while Sally Field and Richard Jenkins mug for all they`re worth as the parents. You`d have to be pretty indulgent to get very many laughs out of this one.