Written by Gordy Hoffman and starring his brother, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, this film chronicles a web designer's emotional meltdown in the wake of his wife's sudden suicide. Wilson Joel (Hoffman) becomes mired in an unruly, overwhelming miasma of grief after Liza (whom we see only once, in a fleeting flashback) asphyxiates herself in their garage. He rejects his mother-in-law's (Kathy Bates) efforts to share the burden of bereavement, can't bring himself to open the suicide note he eventually finds under his pillow, and unnerves his co-workers with inappropriate outbursts. Told to take a vacation, Wilson returns to the beachside resort where he and Liza honeymooned,...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins