Second Best

Former advertising executive Eric Weber's up-close look at the corrosive effects of failure features a fine cast playing a godforsaken gaggle of sour, self-pitying schlubs. Once an up-and-coming editor in a New York City publishing house, Elliot Kelman (Joe Pantoliano) wound up crawling back, tail between his legs, to the small New Jersey town where he was born. He lives on alimony from his ex-wife, successful therapist Paula (Polly Draper), who's remarried to a prosperous new husband, and cash from a humiliating job selling suits at the local mall. His love life is limited to sordid trysts with married crossing-guard Carole-with-an-e (Jennifer Tilly), and he vents h...