The leading man's charm goes a long way toward redeeming writer-director Aaron Mendelsohn's self-absorbed, midlife-crisis dramedy. Dreading his 30th birthday, would-be novelist Adam Lazarus (Dylan Walsh, pre TV's a pre "Nip/Tuck"), an editor/ghostwriter for publishing-company dragon-lady Cassandra (Penelope Ann Miller), ponders the renown attained by his father, Frank (Colm Meaney), a cross-dressing painter. Adam also resents the middle-class security of his married brother, Victor (Rus Blackwell). His live-in girlfriend, Jane (Laurel Holloman), fostering Adam's goal of writing the Great American Novel, places her own documentary-filmmaking aspirations on the back bu...
Released:
1999
Rated:
R
Length:
104 mins