Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jane Adams | ... | Joy Jordan | |
Jon Lovitz | ... | Andy Kornbluth | |
Philip Seymour Hoffman | ... | Allen | |
Dylan Baker | ... | Bill Maplewood | |
Lara Flynn Boyle | ... | Helen Jordan | |
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Justin Elvin | ... | Timmy Maplewood |
Cynthia Stevenson | ... | Trish Maplewood | |
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Lila Glantzman-Leib | ... | Chloe Maplewood |
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Henry | ... | Kooki the Dog |
Gerry Becker | ... | Psychiatrist | |
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Rufus Read | ... | Billy Maplewood |
Louise Lasser | ... | Mona Jordan | |
Ben Gazzara | ... | Lenny Jordan | |
Camryn Manheim | ... | Kristina | |
Arthur J. Nascarella | ... | Detective Berman (as Arthur Nascarella) |
A woman breaks up with her boyfriend, he thinks it's because he's fat. A man is unable to tell her next door neighbor he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11 year old kid is insecure about the fact that he hasn't cum yet. Office workers try to recall the face of a coworker who recently died. A woman is sure she has everything she could ever want. The lives of these individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection. Written by anonymous
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen, but I would hesitate to recommend it to people whom I don't know pretty well. It explores aspects of life and living (and suffering) that most films avoid or actively deny. And it does so brilliantly. The characters are vividly real, and there is such a strong sense of situations unfolding in real time that it's truly mesmerising. I felt like a fly on the wall, eavesdropping on conversations I could never hear otherwise. I think many people would absolutely hate this movie, partly because it doesn't pass judgement on behaviours that are repulsive to the bulk of humanity, and partly because it exposes us to them at all.