Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kenneth Branagh | ... | Peter McGowen | |
Suzi Hofrichter | ... | Amy Walsh | |
Lynn Redgrave | ... | Edna | |
Robin Wright | ... | Melanie McGowen (as Robin Wright Penn) | |
Peter Riegert | ... | Larry | |
Johnathon Schaech | ... | Adam | |
Kaitlin Hopkins | ... | Victoria | |
David Krumholtz | ... | Brian Sellars | |
Suzy Joachim | ... | Allana | |
Brett Rickaby | ... | Janitor | |
Lucinda Jenney | ... | Trina Walsh | |
Stacy Hogue | ... | Babysitter | |
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Banjo | ... | Baby the Dog |
Peri Gilpin | ... | Debra Salhany | |
Tamala Jones | ... | Laura Leeton |
Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is a Los Angeles playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility. A stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him. Neighbors have a new dog that barks all night. His wife wants to have a child, and he does not. He's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mother moves in next door with her eight-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter's paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor's dog? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
This film is so very well written & has such a great title that if it were to be widly distributed would be an instant hit.
I don't want to give the plot away (so I wont) but I will say that the performances are real. Branagh is superb, Wright-Penn is excellent & all concerned add to the film with out a bad apple among them.
The use of the English Language is such a welcome treat. So many people write as if the audience are idiots, & so it's refreshing to find an intelligently written, clever movie.
Please go & see this film. It's so very good.