Gruesomely awful. In Terry Gilliam’s dour fairy tale, a girl (Jodelle Ferland) loses her junkie dad (Jeff Bridges), and the movie takes its cue from his corpse: It dies early on but hangs around, looking more rotten with each scene.
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