The Tollbooth

Ambling but never less than endearing, this comedy from first-time feature writer-director Debra Kirschner follows the travails of a young Jewish woman as she tries to fulfill her dream of becoming a serious artist. Raised on stories of Russian ancestors who barely escaped pogroms and named after two great aunts who died at Auschwitz, it's hardly surprising that Sarabeth Cohen (The Practice's Marla Sokoloff) should grow up with a vague sense of guilt and a strong sense of responsibility to do something more with her life than going to medical school like her oldest sister, Becky (Liz Stauber), or waiting to have a family, like their middle sister, Raquel (Broa...