I only got to see some bits of it, but it looked good...I keep meaning to buy it on DVD but haven't done so yet. You could make an object lesson about how the city fathers in Ithaca, by letting their young men sponge off of Penelope, acting like the some of the Democrats thinking it's ok to take what's not yours, long as it's done for the good of their pockets...
LOL! My county library had the DVD. Bernadette Peters as Circe ... absolutely hysterical.