The interwoven stories of four suburban families who are struggling to crawl out from the isolating safety of objects. Once a promising teenaged singer-songwriter, Paul Gold lays in his bedroom in a coma, nursed by his mother, Esther, who in her caregiver role, has unintentionally distanced herself from her husband and her teenage daughter, Julie. Jim Train is a lawyer who has more intimacy with his work than with his wife Susan; in response she chooses to settle into their new life without him. Their son Jake is finding it hard to conceal his burgeoning fantasy relationship with his sister's doll, Tani, the twelve-inch girl he adores. Annette Jennings, once Paul's lover, is in the midst of a messy divorce and is trying to keep herself together while raising her children, Sam and Rayanne, on a shoestring. Helen Christianson, bored by her husband and the banalities of everyday life, looks for something or someone new to inspire her.
Production Better Safe Productions Inc.; Clear Blue Sky Productions(present); Infilm(as an Infilm/Killer Films Production); Killer Films (as an Infilm/Killer Films Production); Renaissance Films (present); Vulcan Productions;
Cast Names Glenn Close; Dermot Mulroney; Jessica Campbell; Patricia Clarkson; Joshua Jackson; Moira Kelly; Robert Klein; Timothy Olyphant; Mary Kay Place; Kristen Stewart; Alex House; Charlotte Arnold; Andrew Airlie; Stephanie Mills; Angela Vint; Aaron Ashmore; C. David Johnson; Haylee Wanstall; Carly Chalom; Guinevere Turner; Dwayne Hill; Kathryn Winslow; Michael McMurtry; Katie Griffin; Kristi Angus; Aaron Poole; Alex Poch-Goldin; Elisa Moolecherry; Craig Eldridge; Andrea Pinnock; Derek McGrath; Victoria Snow; Dominic Cuzzocrea; Dmitry Chepovetsky; Bill Lake; Balázs Koós; James Lafazanos; Lucas Denton; Noam Jenkins; Lori Nancy Kalamanski;
Box Office USD 319,125
Release Date 2001-04-24 (premiere) 2002-10-10 (Austin Film Festival) 2002-10-13 (New Orleans Film Festival) 2002-11-09 (AFI Film Festival) 2003-03-07 (limited)
Genres Drama;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for sexual content and language.