Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 03/07/2003(USA
Release Date: 10/14/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 120 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Following up on her 1998 opus
Bedrooms and Hallways,
Rose Troche directs this ensemble film about suburbia and its discontents. Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter,
Paul Gold (
Joshua Jackson) now lies in a coma, attentively nursed by his mother
Esther (
Glenn Close), who dotes on her son to the exclusion of her husband and her daughter
Julie (
Jessica Campbell). Meanwhile,
Jim Train (
Dermot Mulroney) is a workaholic lawyer who is closer to his tortes than to his spouse
Susan (
Moira Kelly). Their son
Jake has taken a morbid fascination with his sister's foot-high girl doll. At the same time,
Paul's former lover
Annette Jennings (
Patricia Clarkson) is trying to pull her life and her family back together after a particularly brutal divorce. This film was screened at the
2001 Toronto Film Festival.
~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide