Directed by:
Todd SolondzScreenplay:
Todd SolondzCinematography:
Maryse AlbertiCast:
Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Cynthia Stevenson, Justin Elvin, Lila Glantzman-Leib, Louise Lasser (more)Plots(1)
When a young woman rejects her current overweight suitor in a restaurant, he unexpectedly places a curse on her. The film then moves on to her sisters. One is a happily married woman with a psychiatrist husband and three kids. Unfortunately the husband develops an unnatural fascination for his 11 year old son's male classmates, fantasizes about mass killing in a park, and masturbates to teen magazines. One of his patients has an unrequited fascination for the third sister. Meanwhile the apparently stable 40 year marriage of the sister's parents suddenly unravels when he decides he has had enough and wants to live a hermit's life in Florida. (official distributor synopsis)
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The film, which is definitely not easy to digest, simply because it peeks into our, or in this case, American privacy. This is happening there, even though we don't know about it, or we ourselves know very well that we engage in something like this. Everyone has their own happiness elsewhere, and sometimes that happiness is severely distorted. Todd Solondz presents it naturally and immensely oppressively.
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