With the second edition of AFI Dallas in full swing, the festival's first acquisition deal was announced. Cinema Libre Studios has picked up worldwide rights to Glenn Gers' Disfigured, a narrative feature that had two screenings at the festival this past weekend. The film stars Deidra Edwards and Staci Lawrence as two women dealing with "body issues and self-acceptance," according to the festival program notes.

The film initially focuses on sales clerk Lydia (Edwards, making her screen debut), a plus-sized woman who "struggles with complex feelings about her body and its place in the world," in the words of the announcement. Meanwhile, real estate agent Darcy (Lawrence, in her first feature lead), a recovering anorexic, "is struggling with the same issues but from a very different perspective." The two women meet and find they have much more in common than they might have anticipated.

I have this theory that on the set of 1991's Father of the Bride, Steve Martin and Diane Keaton turned to each other and said, "You know what? From here on out, let's just keep doing this. Let's just play cute, cuddly versions of our formerly edgy and interesting selves -- slightly goofy mothers and fathers, that kind of thing -- and watch the cash roll in!" Then they high-fived and fell into an awkward, melancholy silence.

Through one unchallenging project after another, Keaton has served up the same old eye rolls, squeals, and stutters until you can't really tell one role from another. And what's really frustrating about watching her squander her talents is that -- as with Martin -- no matter how embarrassing the performance, you can't help but love her anyway. She's at her most unhinged in Mad Money, and painful as it is to watch at times, she does -- just barely -- manage to keep the film afloat.