How sad that this travesty was Ephron's final work; had anyone else written it - and had Hanks not agreed to star in it - it would never have gotten produced. Basically there are two things (drastically) wrong with it: the story is not only inherently uninteresting, as well as being cliche-ridden (with the exception of McAlary's coverage of the Louima case, and his subsequent Pulitzer - which takes up only the final 6 pages of a 77 page play, so really too little, too late) - but Ephron inexplicably has the actors TELL the story to the audience ("this happened...and then this happened") rather than act it out, making the entire thing dramatically inert. Just awful.