Perhaps fate is what links Ana, the overwhelmed mother of a learning-challenged boy (Bobby Coleman, Martian Child), to a reckless gambling addict, Saul, in writer/director Charles Oliver’s debut feature film; or perhaps it’s just the storyline. But the questions that underlie the film’s overly dense narrative are most interesting. Take suffers from story overload, which is distracting—at least for this critic, and likely for paying audiences, too. Indeed, it is the chain of events that lead to Saul (Jeremy Renner) and Ana (Minnie Driver) meeting, twice: the second time only moments before Saul’s execution. The filmmakers lay out what happens between these meetings, not so much like a jigsaw puzzle,

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