I'd like to ask everyone

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I'd like to ask everyone to stop what they're doing and bow their heads in a moment of silence...seriously...for Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty, which opened on 3.17 and is already dead. It's one of the best films of 2006 so far, it's Lumet's best since Q & A, and it has what can reasonably be called an embarassment of first-rate performances (by Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Anabella Sciorra, Alex Rocco and Linus Roache, for openers). It cost $13 million to make, took in $608,000 in 439 theatres last weekend, and now has about $667,000 total so far. Forget it, off to video, over and out. Was it doomed from the get-go because nobody cares about Diesel or Lumet or mafia courtoom dramas? Or because the mob-family-values theme turned prospective viewers off? Did Bob Yari screw up the marketing on top of this? Is there some kind of basic aesthetic deficiency out there...a missing hardware chip that allows average sentient beings to recognize a quality flick when it opens? All four probably apply.