Mind The Gap

Writer-director-actor Eric Schaeffer's formulaic but surprisingly affecting drama weaves together the lives of five heartbroken strangers whose destinies ultimately intersect. Free-spirited Malissa Zubach (Elizabeth Reaser) aches to see the wider world beyond her tiny North Carolina hometown, but is bound by responsibility to the dying mother (Deirdre Kingsbury) who hates her. A photographer who needs glasses but refuses to wear them, Malissa's hobby is sending blank audiotapes with self-addressed envelopes to strangers overseas, asking them to record the sounds of their everyday lives and mail back the cassettes. Divorced, Tucson-based accountant John McCabe (Charle...