Don Roos' overlapping stories of Los Angelenos blindsided by love add up to a bleakly funny and sneakily moving examination of mistakes made and their unexpected, far-reaching consequences. When patient-advocate Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) was 17, she seduced her new stepbrother, Charley (Steve Coogan), and later gave up their baby for adoption. Two decades later, aspiring filmmaker Nicky (Jesse Bradford), desperate to score an AFI scholarship, contacts her claiming to know where her son is; he'll tell her if she'll let him make a documentary about their reunion. Mamie's boyfriend, Javier (Bobby Cannavale), a professional masseur, makes a counteroffer: the information for th...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
128 mins