Evidently you are not the only one that thinks so.
Being from the South and having lived here all my life, it just kills me when people try to adopt a Southern accent for movies and FAIL MISERABLY!!! Rachel Ward sounds like she has a speech impediment. If you're gonna do it, do it right and nobody does in this flick. It's distracting from the sucky plot. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119796/usercomments
Barbara Walters has a speech impediment also, she has an occasional lisp and has problems pronouncing words with the letter "R" in them.