Milk And Honey

The lives of three deeply unhappy New Yorkers crisscross in unexpected ways in writer-director Joe Maggio's uneven but strangely affecting film, which strongly recalls the late-night odysseys AFTER HOURS and INTO THE NIGHT (both 1985). Hotshot stockbroker Rick (Clint Jordan) has a full-blown emotional meltdown at the cocktail party he and his wife, Joyce (Kirstin Russell) have thrown at their elegant loft apartment in hopes of assuring Rick's coworkers that he's on the road to recovery from a recent nervous breakdown. The capper is Rick's rambling re-proposal to Joyce, whose startled rejection prompts a blistering tirade about the many ways in which she has humiliate...