Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Robin Wright | ... | Pippa Lee (as Robin Wright Penn) | |
Mike Binder | ... | Sam Shapiro | |
Alan Arkin | ... | Herb Lee | |
Winona Ryder | ... | Sandra Dulles | |
Ryan McDonald | ... | Ben Lee | |
Cornel West | ... | Don Sexton | |
Maria Bello | ... | Suky Sarkissian | |
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Arnie Burton | ... | Doctor |
Tim Guinee | ... | Des Sarkissian | |
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Drew Beasley | ... | Chester Sarkissian, 6 |
Madeline McNulty | ... | Young Pippa, 7 | |
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Beckett Melville | ... | Chester Sarkissian, 13 |
Zoe Kazan | ... | Grace Lee | |
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Billy Wheelan | ... | Waiter |
Shirley Knight | ... | Dot Nadeau |
Pippa Lee feels dislocated when she and her husband Herb move from Manhattan to a retirement community. He's older than she, they have two children who are young adults, and the daughter hardly speaks to Pippa. Pippa tells us about her life, in long flashbacks, starting with her birth to a mom who was a social dynamo and addicted to pills. As a teen, Pippa moves out and lives a hippie life until meeting Herb, who was then married to a young siren. Pippa discloses tragedies and discoveries. In the present, she's sleepwalking at night and talking from time to time with a burned-out case, the 35-year-old son of a neighbor. Can Pippa connect? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
More and more, Hollywood is checking out the state of those born in the 50s. The former hippies, with their libertarian ways of life, and what happened to them after the backlash. Why are they nowadays so strangely conservative? What made them become like that?
This is an intelligent version of the theme. Many under-texts show us Pippa Lee as the disastrous teenager and young woman, heading into this relationship with this old man, who pretends to see her, but much more sees himself and his sophisticated needs.
Good acting, good thoughts, unforeseeable feelings, but no real answer to the backlash question.