SPOILER ALERT - I'm giving away the whole plot below, stop reading if you don't want to know.

So Mr. Otter and I were discussing various actors, as is our wont, and we came to Tim Roth, an Otter Family Favorite Actor. And we agreed that he got typecast as a hit man far too often, and wished to see him in something else.

And lo and behold, there was indeed a movie that he had made recently, in which it was very nice to see him NOT playing a gangster. And he was very good and very charming in this role. But folks, there ain't much there there.

He's a baby found in the ballroom of a cruise ship on Jan 1, 1900, after the huge New Year's Eve party. One of the stokers finds him, and adopts him, and he is raised on board the ship and lives there his whole life. He turns out to be a brilliant piano player. And the whole movie is based on one question: will he ever get off the ship?

Once the viewer figures out that the answer is "No", about halfway through, the movie pretty much loses all of its interest and the viewer starts looking at his/her watch and grabbing cats to pet for amusement.

There is one good scene, where Roth and the trumpet player who is telling the story in a series of flashbacks are rolling around the ballroom floor during a storm on the piano. Otherwise, it's mostly teasers and meaningless encounters that are made to sound meaningful...but aren't.

Tim Roth notwithstanding, you can give this one a miss.