Plot: 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.
