Writer-director Rebecca Miller adapts three of her own short stories into a trio of tightly focused, beautifully acted half-hour films. Subtitled "Three Portraits," they paint pictures of three very different women, each of whom regains her footing in life after finding what one character describes as her "personal velocity." First up: Delia Shunt (Kyra Sedgwick), a married mother of three whose power once lay in her sexuality; Delia always knew how good she looked in a pair of tight blue jeans. Once married, however, sex inevitably became about something else, and Delia soon sank into the inertia that comes with raising three kids while standing by an abusive husban...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
85 mins